Of course, with 80 square inches of film to choose from, you could set the
camera to cover the whole ring & crop when desired.
The hard part is adding more flash powder for each exposure.... <g>
tOM
On Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 19:16, John A. Lind
<olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote re "Re: [OM] To improve, take more phot" saying:
...
> Mike Johnston wrote about "One Shot Charlie" in his March/April 2000 Photo
> Techniques "37th Frame" column. One Shot Charlie is Charles Hoff who shot
> sports (and a few other things) for the New York Daily News from the 1930's
> through the 1960's. Although his most famous photograph is the Hindenburg
> disaster at Lakehurst NJ, his sports photography deserves to be remembered
> much more, primarily his stellar B/W boxing photographs. He acquired the
> nickname from fellow reporters because he shot so very few frames of film,
> and for good reason. Hoff used an 8x10 view camera! Next time you're in a
> large bookstore, look to see if they have the book of Hoff's boxing
> photographs and browse through it. Consider the logistics required and
> constraints within which he worked to shoot very fast-moving sports using
> large sheet film in a view camera.
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