You are in the Midwest and there is a huge flood in progress. Many
homes have been lost, water supplies compromised and infrastructures
destroyed.

Let's say that you're a photographer out getting still pictures for
a news service, traveling alone, looking for particularly poignant
scenes.

You come across the Reverend Jessie Jackson who has been swept away
by the floodwaters. He is hanging on to a tree limb and is about to go
under. You can either put down your camera and save him, or take a
Pulitzer Prize winning photograph of him as he loses his grip on the
limb.

So, here's the question - and think carefully before you answer
it....


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Which lens should you use?

I'd use a 1000mm telephoto lens and use the lens to give him a nice push.  I dont have all day to wait for him to get carried off by the water, there are deadlines in the newspaper world.

Kharn

while looking through my viewfinder, pondering the greater good, jesse would probably slip and i'd take the shot.[:D]

naw, thats bs. i'd try to save 'em. it's my nature, damn it!

pro photographers do have to separate themselves fron their subjects to do their job.

WHAT AND MESS UP A DISPOSABLE CAMERA FROM WALMART ARE CRAZY :)

Could I get a shot of Jessie standing on Al Sharpton's shoulders?  Or vice-versa.  I'm not picky.

I'm thinking 35mm, maybe on a panoramic or widefield cut.

But man, if he's right about to fall in - I better figure out my F-stop fast!!

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"which lens should you use?"

Whichever one I could throw most accurately.

I would use a cell phone with 911 on autodial.