Ha ... Your's is a funny story. Somewhere I've a photo of W. Eugene Smith standing almost chest deep in water, carrying one or more cameras, working towards getting a photograph. I'll have to dig that up and refresh my memory on the cameras, but I think he was carrying a Rollei TLR or something similar.
Shel > [Original Message] > From: E.R.N. Reed > Shel Belinkoff wrote: > > >Where shouldn't a "good camera" go? What do you do if you want better > >quality photos than can be had with the WR-90? > > > > > I then conclude that where I'm going is a suitable environment for a > "good camera." > In fact the only places I've taken the WR-90 that I wouldn't take any > other camera are into swimming pools and water park rides. > Sort of funny story -- some years ago my mother took a trip to Bermuda, > and I lent her the WR-90 because it's a point & shoot. She called me one > day to say she'd been reading various tourist brochures and stuff of > that sort, and read a caution about using cameras there because the air > is very salty (proximity to sea.) So now she was worried about my camera > that she'd borrowed. > I said, I'm sure it'll be fine, but when you come back, we can wash it, > just to be on the safe side. :D > I still think it was a pretty strange thing to write in the tourist > brochure. I read it myself after she came back, but I now don't remember > the exact wording. However, with all my years of living on an island > (admittedly, not Bermuda) I'd never read any such cautionary remarks > about using cameras near the sea. Not *in* the sea or on the beach, mind > you -- just in the area.
