On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Cory Waters <[email protected]> wrote: > I have some tri-x in my MX. It's been there for a long time. There's > another roll in the fridge. I've been meaning to shoot these for a while > but the digital is just too damn easy. > Yesterday I decided that I would take the MX and a couple lenses with me to > the 2 mile road race my Emily was running (why are these things so early in > the morning? Isn't the road there later?) I brought a 50mm and Doug > Franklin's 400mm (Doug, I do still have this :)) Nothing really moved me to > trip the shutter before the start. I was a little worried about not having > enough frames. Film had that weird 12 or 24 or 36 shot limit, remember? I > wanted to get the start and the finish plus a shot of Emily as she > re-emerged from up the road. > > The start: 50mm. She's in a pack and I lost her until she would have been > too small in the un-cropped frame to pick out. Manual focus...Didn't even > fire once. > > Re-emergence: There she is, she's alone, shot framed, 400mm pre-focused and > stopped down enough for some DOF. Shutter hangs open. Battery? crap. what's > going on? shutter returns but now I need to displace and change lenses, > now... > > The finish: I'm not in a good position at all. She's running by. I got > one shot off with the 50 focused at infinity. It's certainty over exposed > and not framed worth a crap. > > Digital + Zoom + autofocus + auto exposure have allowed me to be a crap > photographer. I certainly LOOKED cool though with my black MX, black mono > pod and huge black lens. I bet the guy next to me with his >$100 flip > camera got a decent HD video of HIS kid running up the hill to the finish > though... > > Woe is me :)
Oh waaaah! BTW, the mirror hanging up on your MX couldn't have anything to do with the battery as the shutter/mirror is completely mechanical. The battery only runs the meter. All else will work if the meter pooches. How soon we forget! Rookie. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
