It could also part crowds. Decades ago, I was in DC on a lovely morning and decided I wanted to get a different angle on the Lincoln Memorial. I took my film 35 mm SLR out of my camera bag and started wandering around, just looking through the viewfinder from various vantage points. I never got off a shot. Every time I thought I might have something, someone in the throng pushed or jostled me, or just stepped right in front of me.
I went back to the camera bag to put away my SLR. On a whim, instead of closing the bag, I pulled out my Pentax 6X7, with the wooden grip and the huge lens. Heavy as it was, I trudged back towards the memorial. Miraculously, the mob in front of the memorial parted, to let me through. People actually moved aside and watched in awe as I struggled to get that demon up to my eye and frame an image. I swear I heard an audible "AHH" when I pressed the shutter release and that resounding "CLUNK" bounced off the Marble walls. 'Twas a strange but rewarding experience. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>* On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 3:19 PM Ralf R Radermacher <fotor...@gmx.de> wrote: > Way back there used to be a text somewhere in the internet, joking about > the 67's mirror slap and somethong the author called sonic subject > relocation or some such. The theory was that the mirror slap was so loud > it would push a person backwards and result in unsharp photos. > > Does anyone on here remember this and have a link or a copy? > > Ralf > > -- > Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany > Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com > Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf > Web : http://www.fotoralf.de > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
