Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!tim From: tim@dciem.UUCP (Tim Pointing) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: just a joke (One that really happened) Message-ID: <1648@dciem.UUCP> Date: Tue, 30-Jul-85 07:43:35 EDT Article-I.D.: dciem.1648 Posted: Tue Jul 30 07:43:35 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 30-Jul-85 08:36:15 EDT References: <526@rtech.UUCP> <63800002@hpislb.UUCP> <1151@tekgvs.UUCP> <152@bunny.UUCP> <739@asgb.UUCP> <1120@ihuxn.UUCP> Reply-To: tim@dciem.UUCP (Tim Pointing) Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 22 >> > Erik Mintz sez: >> > I once watched someone try to take a picture of the Grand Canyon. >> > When an onlooker pointed out that the picture would not be very >> > interesting due to the fact that it was 10:00 at night, the >> > photographer responed "But I'm using a flash....." >> >> I saw the same type of thing on the observation floor of the >> Sears tower in Chicago -- a lady with an instamatic trying to >> light up all of downtown Chicago.... > >Add to these a friend of mine (who shall remain nameless) who carefully >prepared her flash on an Instamatic type of camera to take a picture >of ... > > ... a full moon. > What a bright idea! Now I suppose if she use a shutter speed of about 2 1/2 seconds she might have caught the light reflecting off the moon. -- Tim Pointing, DCIEM {allegra,ubc-vision,linus,ihnp4,uw-beaver,floyd}!utcsrgv!dciem!tim or {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!dciem!tim