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[OM] Re: 5D heart attack, was: Re: Hi-res shootout

Subject: [OM] Re: 5D heart attack, was: Re: Hi-res shootout
From: "Jez Cunningham" <jez.cunningham@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 14:17:49 +0200
As if we aren't salivating enough thinking about the new camera gear, you
have to add to the envy:
"...I'd just need a lovely assistant to go along with the lovely model..."
We need PIX!
Jez

On 5/19/06, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hey!!  Whaddya know!  The brightness level was only half way up.  In the
> rush to get going yesterday I glanced at the manual and camera quickly
> and somehow came to the conclusion that the brightness was already at
> max.  I have no idea what I did or what I was looking at.  In the calmer
> light of this morning it's perfectly clear.
>
> If I had been shooting film I'd have been forced to use the Sekonic
> meter in my bag which is what I should have been doing all along.
> Actually, if I'd been shooting film with an OM I probably wouldn't have
> tried to use fill flash which is problematic on an OM because of the
> slow sync speed.  I'd just need a lovely assistant to go along with the
> lovely model so the assistant could hold the reflector (in the 10-15 mph
> breeze).  Even the Lumiquest diffuser on the flash was acting like a
> sail at times.
>
> ps:  I planned to go outside and do some serious lens testing this
> morning.  It's raining... again.  15" apparently wasn't enough.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>

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