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Yeah, I can just see the headlines; 'Local photog gets creamed on cable-car tracks'. Well, the shutter was still open when I realized I had to get out of the way.



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So anyway, I lugged my tripod along with me last Sunday on a steep walk up Mason starting near Columbus. Cable-cars have pretty wimpy warning bells--I suppose out of consideration for the residents at such an early hour.



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Surviving Mason Street, I moved several blocks south, to the curved tracks at the corner of Powell & Jackson.



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So there you go. Snapped f-2.8 at 1/20sec ISO-400 on full-frame Canon5D Mark2, with 'L' 70-200 f-2.8 'II' I.S.   And yes, by sheer luck I suppose, no camera jockey or any of his equipment got run over. This time...


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