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From: "David Savage"
Subject: Re: PESO: Eye Candy
I was tempted by the wider glass for a while. But I use my 6x7 so
infrequently...
The last time my 6x7 kit was used was several years ago by the studio owner
I work with. I think I already had the istD, so it was probably in 2004. The
DSLRs didn't have the resolution yet for what he needed, so he used the 6x7.
I used it in the spring of 2003 to photograph the an overview of a poker
tournament at our local casino (a great story about security guard stupidy
came from this one *).
Prior to that, I haven't used it for much of anything since the fall of
2002.
*So, I got sent out to shoot some overviews of a large card room where a
bunch of wannabe card sharps were playing Texas Hold'em (whatever, I know
nothing of this stuff).
Everything was arranged, I had been assigned a time to arrive, and a window
of time to shoot in. I got to the casino when I was supposed to, and checked
in with the person I was supposed to check in with, and was ushered to a
wrap around balcony and was told to go crazy, but could I please not take
longer than a half hour or so.
Security person #1 buggers off.
I notice, as I am setting up that I have attracted the attention of some
security drones on the floor below me.
Security goon #2 comes up and asks me what I am doing. I explain that I am
photographing the room, and gave him the name of the contact person at the
casino.
He goes away and confers with another goon.
Security goon #3 comes along and points vaguely at someone on the floor who
might show up as a coloured blob at best (probably 200 feet away) and tells
me that I can't have that person in my photographs.
At this point I have pretty much run out of patience with these morons.
I tell him that I am contracted to be there and that his bosses are paying
me to be there, doing what I am doing, and if said person doesn't want to be
in my pictures, perhaps a half hour trip to the bathroom might be in order
for her, and that he could make himself very useful by getting the hell out
of my way, and perhaps escort the unwilling subject to said bathroom.
This went over well......
So, he gets a little more pompous with me and starts blathering about how
she is a member of the CIA and that her cover could be blown if there are
pictures of her.
At this point, I completely lost it on the guy, telling him that presuming
he wasn't completely full of shit, I wouldn't really care if a foriegn spy's
cover got blown, what the hell was she spying on at a casino in Asshole
Saskatchewan, and that I was, in reality, an agent for the FBI checking on
criminal gambling activities on foreign soil by members of the CIA, that he
was close to blowing my cover, and that if he did, I'd see to it that his
security guard days were over and that he'd end up in the next cell over
from the "CIA agent".
It's not just on the PDML that I am a complete jerk.
Eventually he just went away and I got to do my job.
William Robb
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