Winsor Crosby wrote:
<I once tried to photograph an old Maya ritual site in a partially wet
<imestone cave in Yucatan, that I had to enter on my hands and knees. It
<felt like 1000midity and about 95 degrees inside. Using another camera ,
<and a Vivitar flash caused massive arcing between the camera and the flash.
<Somehow the electricity did not get me. It worked fine outside. I chalked
<it up to the Maya ancestors or the jaguar god.
I may have worse conditions for some of my photos (though that's
debatible.. I have claustophobia and you couldn't pay me enough to enter a
dark hole on my hands and knees..) but at least I'm not worried about left
over psychic emanations.. ancestors, etc....
I did have one flash (OM 280) get so hot from a short (I guess) that the
front panel melted. Somehow the arcing would be much more impressive I
think!
Kerry
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