[LargeFormat] Large Format in Rome, Italy

[Brock Nanson]

Out of curiosity, what do you do for a tripod when traveling like this??

Brock

----- Original Message -----
From: "Clive Warren" <Clive.Warren@megacycle.co.uk>
To: <largeformat@f32.net>
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 2:48 AM
Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] Large Format in Rome, Italy


| At 18:33 03/03/02 -0700, Marco Milazzo wrote:
| >Don't work -- have fun!  Bring a small camera for collecting memories,
relax
| >and enjoy your time in Rome.
| >
| >Lugging heavy camera gear around, worying that it might be stolen, isn't
| >fun -- and you can't dance or run fast with it.  So you miss a couple of
| >potentially good shots -- no problem.  Good memories are better than good
| >pictures.
| >
| >Buon Viaggio!
| >Marco di Texas
|
| Marco - do I detect a slight Italian influence?......
|
| Part of the trip will be work anyway, otherwise I would not be going.  As
| it will be a fairly short trip then it seems to make more sense to try and
| take a couple of meaningful photos.  There are already great memories of
| previous visits in smaller formats lurking somewhere in the filing system
| (well boxes actually) that contains all the 35mm stuff.
|
| The deciding factor in taking the 4x5 LF kit over is not so much the
| weight, rather the potential problems from inspections of film holders
| coming back from Rome.  This wasn't so much of a problem in the past,
| however security has been tightened up a lot since the end of last year.
| There will not be time to get the film developed before returning.  Was
| thinking about buying some Fuji film in Rome and taking some Ilford B&W.
|
| Maybe planning to dance is a better idea :-)
|
| Cheers,
|             Clive