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Re: [OM] T32, minerals and museums

Subject: Re: [OM] T32, minerals and museums
From: Acer Victoria <siddim01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 16:08:40 -0700 (PDT)
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, B Gray wrote:

>Acer Victoria writing about the T32 said 'I asked this mostly regarding
>trying to flash photo stuff in a display,
>like a museum. It probably would be better to use natural light, no? They
>might even prohibit flash, although I don't see how it would degrade
>minerals....'
>        During a visit to new York, I recently used a flash repeatedly in
>the Natural History Museum photographing the displays of minerals etc, (and
>also the big dinosaur,) with an OM2SP and T32.
>However the samples were so big that I did not have to worry about being too
>close.
>Brian Gray (First contribution to list)
>Brian and Vivienne Gray
>Hadrian Way, UK
>bandvg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  

Welcome to the list, and many thanks for the reply too! By close-ups, I
meant like filling the frame with a single crystal or rock, using the
50/3.5 macro. The museum trip will be sometime this week, and I plan to
take the 28 for some shots of the "mazes and illusions" display :-)

/Acer Victoria
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