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Subject: Re: photography in an operating room?
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Date: Thu, 4-Aug-83 14:46:48 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  4 14:46:48 1983
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1:  Film  speed IS a  problem.  If it is bright  enough to use  anything
    less than 400 ASA, and perhaps even then, you will, as Leboyer says,
    "bring the infant into the world not blind, but blinded." Observe it
    closely  soon after  birth and you may notice it  squinting.  If you
    are kind, you will plan ahead for darkness.

2:  The answer is, don't use the right  filter; use the right  room.  Go
    to a hospital with an ABC (Alternate  Birthing Center) room that has
    a window complete with  adjustable  blinds, and you can photograph a
    dark, quiet, natural birth by natural light.

Sorry if I sound like a militant.  After  photographing  the birth of my
daughter last May I was sold on the above advice.

Alan Silverstein, Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Systems Division, Colorado
ucbvax!hplabs!hpfcla!ajs, 303-226-3800 x3053, N 40 31'31" W 105 00'43"