RE: [APML] Tales of the really stupid

["Greg Hartke" <ghartke@adelphia.net>]

Pfff. You think *that's* stupid... I did that to a whole roll of film once.
I skip frames so it was 18 exposures over a several week period. Yessir, 18
exposures at 1/250 sec done 90 minutes at a time. Duh, I play line. 'Course,
that was nothing compared to the time I left my telescope set up outside
overnight and a freak wind storm came up and blew all 100+ lbs. of it over
onto my father-in-law's car. Good thing it was only a brand new 5-Series BMW
or I might have *really* been in trouble. Several thousand dollars in
repairs later, the car was good as new. Almost. (We'll forget the telescope
repair...)

Even a rat learns, though. I never made either of those mistakes again! ;)

Greg Hartke
Sykesville, MD

> -----Original Message-----
> From: astro-photo-bounces@seds.org
> [mailto:astro-photo-bounces@seds.org]On Behalf Of William R. Mattil
> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 4:24 PM
> To: Discussion of Film Astrophotography
> Subject: Re: [APML] Tales of the really stupid
>
>
> My Dumbest Moment ?
>
> There *are* many but I think the best one was laboriously manually
> guiding a one hour photo and really sweating over it, attempting the
> unthinkable .... pinpoint stars only to find out afterwards that the
> shutter on the Nikon was set for 1/500.
>
> That one convinced me to never use the Astro-Camera for daylight
> photography <g>
>
> Funniest Moment ???
>
> Okie-Tex 2003. Settling into the ordeal of focusing when nearby a
> horrendous crash of metal on metal followed by a dull thud. A voice off
> in that direction mutters "That sounds like a Takahashi!"
>
> Another voice from the other direction called out "Mine doesn't sound
> like that"
>
> Guess you had to be there but it was funny.
>
> Bill
>
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