I have some tri-x in my MX. It's been there for a long time. There's
another roll in the fridge. I've been meaning to shoot these for a
while but the digital is just too damn easy.
Yesterday I decided that I would take the MX and a couple lenses with me
to the 2 mile road race my Emily was running (why are these things so
early in the morning? Isn't the road there later?) I brought a 50mm
and Doug Franklin's 400mm (Doug, I do still have this :))
Nothing really moved me to trip the shutter before the start. I was a
little worried about not having enough frames. Film had that weird 12
or 24 or 36 shot limit, remember? I wanted to get the start and the
finish plus a shot of Emily as she re-emerged from up the road.
The start: 50mm. She's in a pack and I lost her until she would have
been too small in the un-cropped frame to pick out. Manual
focus...Didn't even fire once.
Re-emergence: There she is, she's alone, shot framed, 400mm pre-focused
and stopped down enough for some DOF. Shutter hangs open. Battery?
crap. what's going on? shutter returns but now I need to displace and
change lenses, now...
The finish: I'm not in a good position at all. She's running by. I
got one shot off with the 50 focused at infinity. It's certainty over
exposed and not framed worth a crap.
Digital + Zoom + autofocus + auto exposure have allowed me to be a crap
photographer. I certainly LOOKED cool though with my black MX, black
mono pod and huge black lens. I bet the guy next to me with his >$100
flip camera got a decent HD video of HIS kid running up the hill to the
finish though...
Woe is me :)
CW
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