Well, David Douglas Duncan seems to have shot the entire Korean War using just 2 lenses, a 50mm and a 135mm, and the same exposure for all his pictures. W E Smith, on the other hand, used 5 cameras at a time.
Patrick Chauvel shot the glorious invasion of Panama with a yellow Minolta Weathermatic. He tricked his way onto the island by pretending to be a tourist. During the invasion he was shot in the stomach. He wrote (in "Shooting Under Fire"): I had that yellow Minolta Weathermatic around my neck, the only one I had left after being robbed earlier. I looked like an idiot with a hole in my stomach and this dumb camera. I thought the Americans wouldn't pick me up when they saw it. "I'm press", I'd say. "Bullshit", they'd say. "No way. You're a tourist". It would have been terrible to die with that camera. So you see, you have to be able to improvise! -- Cheers, Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Shel Belinkoff > Sent: 05 September 2006 23:34 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: RE: the way it was ... the way it is (was: amusing > product review) > > Oh, you'll get no disagreement from me on that point. OTOH, > based on the > equipment list posted by some GFM attendees, and the gear > I've seen various > PDMLers take for a few hours of local shooting on one of our NorCal > meetings, there is definitely a point of overkill. > Capa shot an entire war with less gear than some people bring > on a days > outing. Erwitt's travelling equipment case of 35mm gear - > the one he took > when on assignment - contained less gear than some people take for a > weekend stroll in the woods. I think you have the same photo > I do of that > case. > > But, the real point is that, for me and some others - > yourself included - > carryig lap tops, CD burners, poratble hydroelectric > generators, satellite > uplinks, and so on and on are not only wasteful of space but > often useless > in many situations. > > And, considering the prevelance of zoom lenses these days, > you can often > get by with only two or three lenses. > > What some of the people here are missing is the point that > many photogs > when travelling, are travelling to places where it's > difficult to recharge > batteries, where lap tops are useless without portable generators, and > where it may be difficult to find an internet cafe that allow > you to burn > CD's. > > Shel > "The smallest feline is a masterpiece" - Leonardo da Vinci > > > > > [Original Message] > > From: Bob W > > > One of the important things is to try and eliminate > show-stoppers and, > > as far as reasonable, single points of failure. It's > therefore wise to > > have at least 2 bodies and a set of lenses with some > overlap in their > > range of focal lengths. > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
