How to Shoot and Not Get Shot

[Leica0Series]

Apologies if this has been posted, but I searched and didn't find it. Apparently Leicas do have a place on the battlefield, for some ... scroll down to read his kit list. But the article is entertaining (and true) no matter what he's packing.

http://gizmodo.com/5330715/ask-a-pro-how-to-shoot-photos-in-a-war-zone

 

[pachuco]

Teru is pretty cool. Just goes to show that your equipment needs to fit you, not the other way around : )

 

[Ducky]

A good read. Very insightful.

 

[emraphoto]

Dollar store ziplocks. Don't leave home without a load of them.

 

[John Camp]

If you go to these places for a while, what you quickly learn is that it's hard to get even the simplest things done, and you live in crappy conditions, and that life can be almost endlessly tedious. You can get scared and you can get killed, but the thing that will drive you away is that most of the time, it's not very interesting: trying to find a socket, trying to recharge the sat phone, trying to get a ride, trying to get a decent meal, trying to find a stock of Imodium. I think perhaps the best armor is a romantic vision of yourself. Without that, you begin to feel like a fool.

Flying into Baghdad:

 

[Dfin]

Read, One Crowded Hour, Neil Davis Combat Cameraman, by Tim Bowden. Sadly his luck ran out on a Bangkok street in 1985.

 

[parsec1]

Teru is pretty cool. Just goes to show that your equipment needs to fit you, not the other way around : )

Something that Leica seems to have forgotten!😱 including the imodium

 

[rxmd]

So another response in the other thread about what the M9 would need to make it a better war correspondent's camera would be "an imodium compartment, and a reassuring voice that tells you that you're doing it for the greater good".

(Incidentally there are pretty decent alternatives to Imodium now. I spent most of the last two years in Central Asia and the Caucasus in various countries in various conditions. Before I went there I took a cholera shot that was advertised as also providing immunization against various types of diarrhea, and it definitely helped, I haven't taken a tablet of Imodium ever since. I guess if it gets all bad and you have amoeba in your drinking water etc., it won't, but then Imodium won't either, as it only normalizes the peristaltics of the digestive tract.)

 

[parsec1]

So another response in the other thread about what the M9 would need to make it a better war correspondent's camera would be "an imodium compartment, and a reassuring voice that tells you that you're doing it for the greater good".

(Incidentally there are pretty decent alternatives to Imodium now. I spent most of the last two years in Central Asia and the Caucasus in various countries in various conditions. Before I went there I took a cholera shot that was advertised as also providing immunization against various types of diarrhea, and it definitely helped, I haven't taken a tablet of Imodium ever since. I guess if it gets all bad and you have amoeba in your drinking water etc., it won't, but then Imodium won't either, as it only normalizes the peristaltics of the digestive tract.)

Regarding the imodium I wasn't refering to the human body but the deluge from wetzlar.:bang:
BTW I am most certainly not a 'war photograper' although frequently have to go to places where weapons are in abundance and used without 'due care and attention' !