This is a candidate for the hall of fame. Thanks for brightening up my
Friday, Bill. Have a great weekend.
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From: NSURIT@xxxxxxx [mailto:NSURIT@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 7:56 AM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] If there is any way to mess it up . . .
As I contemplated getting ready for work, I made a trip downstairs to get my
second cup of coffee. Looked out the window onto the small patio where I
get an opportunity to give my OM equipment a frequent work out because of
the garden which surrounds it and noticed there was a break in the clouds,
providing a nice backlighting to the yellow flowers on the vine growing
beside the garage. Everything was wet as it has been raining here for the
past few days and there was a humming bird actively working the flowers.
History has taught me that I can go out there scare the hummingbird away
while I'm setting up and then if I wait patiently, it will return. To heck
with work, I'm going to capture this "Kodak moment." Dashed upstairs, took
the OM 2S with bellows and 80mm off the tripod, set it aside, grabbed the OM
G I'm testing prior to giving it to my son-in-law, the ! Zuiko 400mm and
extension tubes. I tried to slip outside as quietly as possible, while
dropping the legs on the tripod. The hummingbird did exactly as I expected
and hauled buns. Set the tripod up, unscrewed the lens cap and thought I
would focus on the area the bird had been working. Man do I have one heck
of a fog filter going, from taking the rig from the air-conditioned comfort
of my home out into the 980midity. Everything was sweating including
me. The camera was wet, the front element was wet, the glass on the eye
piece was wet. Focusing impossible. Hey, I've been here before, so I ran
back inside, went upstairs set my glasses down grabbed a couple of cotton
balls to dry the glass with and went back outside. While I was inside it
had sprinkled a bit, so now I had some water issues going on, not just the
fogged up lens. Dried everything off, tried to focus and realized the
glasses were upstairs on the desk. Ran back ins! ide, upstairs, grabbed the
glasses went back outside, started to focus and the glasses are now totally
fogged up. Dang, double dang and a few other words I learned in the Navy.
Well, actually, I knew them before the Navy. They were part of my
qualifications for enlistment. Got the glasses to the right temperature and
dried them off and then took the body off to install the extension tube . .
. now I had a fogged up mirror. I really do have to go to work, the
hummingbird can wait until later and there is one thing I am absolutely sure
about . . . the rest of the weekend has got to better than the way today
started. I hope everyone has a great weekend and captures some wonderful
images that surpass the verbal one I have just shared with you. Bill Barber
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