It's not the old Cactus Hotel is it?
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> 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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