Re: Reciprocity nightmare

Great fun, Guy! Hope your next dream gets here soon.
Jim K

----- Original Message -----
From: "Guy Glorieux" <guy.glorieux@sympatico.ca>

> I had a dream...
>
> It was a dark, lonely night and I was out with my 8x10 PH camera. The
> New Moon was further darkened by an incredibly rare simultaneous eclipse
> of the sun and the moon. I could barely see my hands and feet as I
> walked to the scene I was about to shoot for that winning picture for
> the First International Nocturne Pinhole Exhibition. Ten times before
> leaving I had checked that my film holders were fully loaded with film.
>
> A single word kept swirling in my mind: r e c i p r o c i t y
>
> I must not fail, I must not fail, I kept repeting to myself in the
> darkness of the darkest forest.
>
> Formulas kept poping up in my mind: 10% compound; one-over-the
> square-root of the inverse of the sunny-16 times three times the speed
> of my film; add twice the diameter of my pinhole divided by the focal
> length of my camera to the exposure time estimated for the 3rd f-stop on
> my right and multiply the cosinus by the coefficient of uncertainty...
> I knew I could do it. How could I fail with all this simple mathematics
> so well spelled out on The list.
>
> Something tryied to grab me in the dark. I gave it a sharp blow and the
> thing went blonk. Nothing could stop me from winning the top prize of
> the Nocturne Pinhole Exhibition at Pinhole Vision.
>
> Finally I reached the scene. It was a wonderful landscape I had spotted
> two days ago after hours of walk in the country side. I set the camera
> on the tripod. The temperature was a chilling 25 below freezing but I
> was well covered for a long wait. With my flashlight, I carefully read
> the spotmeter's reading and worked out the reciprocity factor on my
> PDA. 258 hours, 64 minutes and 12 seconds... Hmmm... Add a couple
> hours, just to make sure... It was just that simple!
>
> I knew I could do it. But, rats, I suddenly realized that the final
> deadline for submitting the print was tomorrow with an exposure time of
> well over 10 days. I forgot to factor that into my equation... -:((
>
> Guy Glorieux
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Received on Wed Jan 10 07:34:27 2001