Chris,
As long as you have been sucked into this, can you use the opportunity to
justify the purchase of some additional Oly gear ?
(just the Zuikoholic in me showing)
Wayne Harridge
Ivanhoe, Victoria, Australia
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Louvre/6152/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Biggs [mailto:chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, October 01, 1999 10:05 AM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [OM] Help! Trapped at a wedding.
>
>
> Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> moved upon the face of the
> 'Net and spake thusly:
>
> > 1. Even though they're friends, if they're simply imposing upon you
> > to take the gig, and (worse) aren't paying you for it, then they get
> > precisely what they deserve. It strikes me as ungracious of someone
> > to say "So you'd better get it right" in such a situation. You
> > would know better than me, of course.
>
> Well, they didn't exactly say that... I was paraphrasing my wife who
> was suggesting that this wouldn't be a good time to try out some
> relatively new equipment. :-)
>
> I'd assumed they'd taken my "for goddess' sake get a pro" advice, and
> my wife assumed I knew that they'd decided not to. The truth only
> dawned on me this week.
>
> It's a rather informal wedding--they've been shacked up for a while
> anyhow.
>
> > 4. Bring extra batteries, extra bodies, and extra lenses.
> >
> You bet.
>
> > 5. Dragoon one of the cute young things that are inevitably at these
> > affairs into being your assistant. (Works for me!) If she's
> > unavailable for the entire time, dragoon several in series. ;-)
>
> :-)
>
> cjb
>
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