In a message dated 3/1/98 9:13:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I have a huge list of photos...the GREATEST SHOTS NEVER TAKEN...that >were botched by me (mostly) my equipment (mostly operator error again) >or otherwise screwed up in some way, since I began to seriously shoot >trains in 1968. There is no way to download the list out of my gray >matter, but I have plenty on that list and while it isn't growing >rapidly, it continues to exist in my mind.
I think most all of us have a huge list of "GREAT PHOTOS WE NEVER TOOK". Like Dave, most of the ones that come to my mind are also mainly a result of "operator error" rather than equipment failure. Like the simple case of waiting for an hour for a train to finally arrive, having the camera setup and having picked out the spot where the shutter was to be pressed, only to have the camera not trip. The big dummy behind the camera had turned the camera off, and forgot that fact in the excitement when the long awaited train finally appeared. However I do have one in mind. Somewhere in the middle of a 10 day trip a number of years ago, one of the set screws on the shutter speed knob on my Pentax 6 x 7 loosened to the point that it the correct shutter speed was not indicated by the position shown. All to many rolls were incorrectly exposed from thinking that the shutter was set for a completely different setting than was actually the case. Also its tough to stop action at what must have been a shutter speed of about 1/30 of a second or less. Warren Calloway Raleigh, NC [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> SPORRS: 'Serious Photographers Of Railroad Related Subjects' -> Web Site: http://www.anet-stl.com/acphotog/sporrs/ -> Message © 1998 SPORRS® - All Rights Reserved
