I have kicked this theory around for a while, but last night's wedding kind
of sealed it.
To set it up, here are the details. We have a hotel here in town that has
been converted into office space and the like. It was the second hotel ever
built by Conrad Hilton so that will give some idea to he age and grandeur of
the place. The bottom two floors and the ballroom are popular for weddings
and receptions. I have shot several weddings there and also shot one there
last night.
Now heres the kicker. I rarely have equipment problems using two Pentax
645s and Sunpak and Photogenic lighting. EXCEPT when I work in this hotel!
Time after time while shooting there little nuisance things pop up that
remarkably fix themselves when I check the equipment at home.
Last night it was intermittent strobe misfires. I might normally have one
per 5-10 ROLLS where last night it was close to 25 percent. Very
embarrassing. At other events there, it might be a radio slave that refused
to work suddenly, but does so as soon as I leave. One night my studio
strobes went on a rampage of firing at random without me or anyone touching
them. I helped a friend shoot a wedding there one night and between my two
Pentaxes and his three Hasseys, we had two working cameras by night's end.
There have been other such happenings, and I cannot remember shooting there
without at least SOME equipment problem.
Strange. Could it be the ghost of a departed C**** or N**** user wandering
the hotel corridors waiting for unsuspecting photographers?
Robert Dierschke
San Angelo, Texas
(Another of those pesky Texans)
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