Ken Norton wrote:
>The "graveyard boxes" of every professional photographer are littered with
>the carcasses of these cheeseball cords. The sad part of it is that the
>Hamas aren't much better. Manufacturers of PC sync cords still haven't
>figured out the art of impedances and RF filtering. I'm about to have an
>RF engineer friend of mine make up some custom PC cables for me that won't
>trigger the flash every time anybody walks by my setup with a cellphone.
I think the problem on mine was the design of the camera-end plug being
flawed - bloody idiotic, anyway - I've since tried it on a Nikon F100 in a
store, and it failed on that too, so it's not my cameras (pardon the
blasphemy, but it's not an all bad camera, that F100...)
>c) the client, lovely gent that he was, decided the time was right to go
>through his entire repertoir (sp?) of tasteless jokes, you know...
>I would have been packing my stuff up after the second joke. Slimeball
>activity like that I have no patience with. I will take the offending
>person aside and let him know in private that I won't put up with it and
>one more joke and I'm outta there. I still charge the client though as the
>contract usually says something about the client's responsibility to
>provide an adequate facility and resources for the shoot.
Ahh yesss, contract - it really is about time I wrote myself up one of those
<G> ... I've only just done my model release....
>What? Don't you know that a fashion shoot these days requires at least 50
>rolls per outfit? Oh, and don't forget at least 25 poloroids for light
>testing and three assistants?
<laugh> this was one occasion when a polaroid back would have been nice for
a couple of tests - a couple of shots had shadows just on the hard side, but
nothing too traumatic.
Having seen the shots yesterday, I'm actually pretty happy with the final
results, just annoyed at the people and process - but everyone else was
happy and enthusiastic about it all, so whatever....
>>Sorry to be a bleeding heart (and a bit OT), but I needed to get this out
my
>>system... <g>
>
>More fiber.
Cheers
Andy (munchin' down the Kellogg's All Bran) Wiese
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"Egyptian pharoahs fell from the sky...
Fell from the sky, and played the blues"
- Transglobal Underground
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