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[OM] Re: E-500 in Amateur Photographer

Subject: [OM] Re: E-500 in Amateur Photographer
From: Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:16:02 +1100
Damn it Walt - why dya always try and offer your obvious deficiencies  
as evidence of a noble character?
Bet I'm slower - just like my camera to be faster than I am!
AndrewF


On 13/11/2005, at 4:43 AM, Walt Wayman wrote:

> My gate swings the other way.  Probably comes with being old and  
> slow.  I haven't set my E-1 above 400 ISO yet, and at least 95  
> percent of the shots I've made with it have been at 100.  And if  
> you could take a peek inside my beer and film fridge, with over 100  
> rolls of 35mm and 120 film, plus 500+ sheets of 6x9, you wouldn't  
> find anything faster than Tri-X, HP5, or Provia 400F, and not much  
> of either, not even as much as of Efke 25 and my increasingly  
> precious stash of Velvia 50.
>
> Speed kills!  Slow and steady wins the race, and so on.  I do,  
> though, shoot sports, wildlife, even automobile and motorcycle  
> races, and if I'm going to shoot in the dim or the dark, I tend to  
> use a big flash -- like a T45 -- or two.  Let there be light!  :-)



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