<<I think now it's time for everyone else to confess and be honest and open
about the dumbest thing you ever did. Of course it has to be video/editing
related.>>
-----I dont know which is dumber, so I am including both of my all-time
dumbest....
1) I was asked to participate in the "Hands Across America" project and for
my part I was being flown over the Ontario area in a private plane to get
aerial footage of the thousands of people forming the famous human chain
which in this case happened to be in the desert. Halfway through the flight
my last battery in the Sony portable Umatic SP deck started going out, and I
was desperately searching for a fix. I noticed the cigarette lighter next to
me and promptly fished out the adapter from my ditty bag and plugged in the
deck. I did not realize that the plane was entirely wired for 24 volts and I
instantly started smelling a foul odor and seeing a small plume of smoke
issuing from the deck.
Yup, smoke in the cockpit of a small, private plane...who could possibly ask
for a more unsettling situation. Naturally the deck continued to try and
record even while its entire servo unit and color circuitry went the way of
the dinosaurs, but the footage was unusable and I was facing a 490 dollar
repair bill, and I lost a fairly good although temperamental client in the
process.
2) I was shooting a corporate training seminar in the Bonaventure Hotel when
the Whittier Earthquake started right before my eyes. I forgot to
instinctively hit the RECORD button.
Yup, I dashed all through the hotel, grabbing footage as chandeliers crashed
to the ground over the heads of frightened patrons, as windows crashed to
the street from several dozen floors above outside, and NONE of it got on
tape.
JeffH
Ch.S.
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