domenico Foschi
6-Sep-2006, 21:32
Well, there I was after 1 1/2 hours of Southern California freeway traffic at my destination: Newport Beach.
I had decided to shoot some beach scenes, waves and whatever would knock at the door.
I park the car, open the rear doors where I have my backpack, old manfrotto tripod and my speedgraphic.
As I always do, I position the speedgraphic on the hood of the car, reach for the back pack which I wear, and the tripod on my left shoulder.
I go for the speedgraphic and I see smoke coming out of it! While I was noticing this, a car with two young people park next to me and I think, "Nah, that was the smokefrom these guys car".
The engine of the car is now off, I look at my camera and I see smoke again!
Let me tell you, at the moment I was questioning reality, I had no idea what was happening when I saw that the smoke was coming from inside the camera.
Then I started to have a backflash of when I was about 25 when my first FTB went in...smoke.
I take off the petzval that was attached to it and...sure thing, the curtain was burning; for the second time in my life I had put the lens straight toward the sun which burned the curtain in a metter of seconds.
SOOO, lesson, never position a camera with fabric curtain perpendicular to the sun rays, and to be more sure always keep the shutter in the 0 position when it comes to a spreed graphic.
Back to ebay, I guess...
I had decided to shoot some beach scenes, waves and whatever would knock at the door.
I park the car, open the rear doors where I have my backpack, old manfrotto tripod and my speedgraphic.
As I always do, I position the speedgraphic on the hood of the car, reach for the back pack which I wear, and the tripod on my left shoulder.
I go for the speedgraphic and I see smoke coming out of it! While I was noticing this, a car with two young people park next to me and I think, "Nah, that was the smokefrom these guys car".
The engine of the car is now off, I look at my camera and I see smoke again!
Let me tell you, at the moment I was questioning reality, I had no idea what was happening when I saw that the smoke was coming from inside the camera.
Then I started to have a backflash of when I was about 25 when my first FTB went in...smoke.
I take off the petzval that was attached to it and...sure thing, the curtain was burning; for the second time in my life I had put the lens straight toward the sun which burned the curtain in a metter of seconds.
SOOO, lesson, never position a camera with fabric curtain perpendicular to the sun rays, and to be more sure always keep the shutter in the 0 position when it comes to a spreed graphic.
Back to ebay, I guess...