Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/01

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Bringing home the bacon (or venison)
From: CAMRALUGGR@aol.com
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 22:31:39 EDT

The following respected LUGgers remarked:

Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 09:01:27 +0800
From: ray tai <razerx@netvigator.com>
Subject: Re: [Leica] Back aches
Message-ID: <3B183AE7.9A102243@netvigator.com>
References: <NBBBIDNIGLFOKNLJCPLHOEOGGCAA.ddh@home.com>

Didn't Harvey carry two M6 bodies, 28mm, 35mm, 50mm Lenses and a Nikon
F100 (for flash) for his Cuba book?

Dan Honemann wrote:

> Sal,
>
> > Very, very few real assignments lend themselves to
> > the single camera, single lens approach.
>
> Tell that to David Alan Harvey. :)
>
> Respectfully,
> Dan

For flash work, Harvey utilizes a 2800 Vivitar set to a 45 degree angle with 
a Sto-Fen Universal diffuser on his M6 cameras with the lenses mentioned 
above.  With the body set to 1/15th or so, and the flash on the red setting 
and the lens at F/2 or smaller, depending on the ceiling height (if any), he 
manages to achieve superb flash enhanced images.  A film of him using this 
technique was shown during his one-man show at NG's Explorers Hall a couple 
of years ago.  Fellow LUGger Javier Montiel has taken a couple of workshops 
with Harvey, and he shared the details with me recently.  The results speak 
for themselves.  FWIW, a 28, 35 and 50 set of lenses is still two more than 
"Hank" used :)

You can hunt deer with a .22 single shot, but I wouldn't count on a full 
belly come suppertime.  Would that we could! :)

Best regards -- Mike Crist