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For years I took great photos with an Argus C3, with limited aperture and shutter speed settings, got a couple published in the paper from fire and rescue scenes I had been at and have many family memory ones that I cherish, then I bought, real cheap, an auto metering camera, which I quickly replaced with my first Minolta SRT-101. The auto metering camera consistently chose the wrong exposure settings and there was no way to adjust it, at least the Minolta allowed me to weight one or the other and shoot away with some confidence that I was getting good exposures.

austinrealtor wrote: http://www.worldsfamousphotos.com/index.php/tag/bullet/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; (interesting to note the "photographer" was actually an MIT scientist - by today's standards, he wouldn't even be allowed to bring a rifle onto campus in Boston)

My father was a contemporary of Edgerton's at MIT, in the Electrical Engineering Department, Edgerton was a couple of years ahead of him and was one of his assistant professors. I had the honor of meeting him a couple of times, but as a teenager singularly unimpressed with the technology at the time, and having been thoroughly berated for making myself ineligible to attend dad's alma mater, I was even less interested than you can imagine.

CJATE wrote:speaking of timing, I took this this past weekend. When the kids are around, I set mine to snap in 5 shot bursts, so i have a few on either side of this one that i trashed:

ROFL!

I have got to find my copy of a pic that was taken with a Speed Graphic back in the 60s. Pure luck combined with good timing - Our fire department ladies' drill team was practicing a bucket brigade event and the woman at the top of the ladder got frustrated with the coach standing on the ground and dumped a bucket of water right in his face. The pic was taken just at the moment the water was arriving at his face.

I can't claim credit for the pic, I was standing off to the side watching my wife who was participating in the drill. What I didn't know at the time was her name, or that she would become my wife in 5 years.