Father Pre-Flash

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SO DONALD LOOKED OVER at me and asked, “Joe, do you want me to be Jesus or Moses?” I said he could be either. I just wanted him to be leading his people to the land of accurate flash exposure via the mechanism of the monitor pre-flash.

He said, “Okay, I’ll be Jesus, then. People tend to call me that already.”

“Really?” I asked, mildly surprised. “I didn’t know that.”

“Yeah,” he said. “I walk in and people just go, ‘Oh, Jesus Christ, it’s him again.’” His eyes were twinkling.

With Donald, the picture tends to take care of itself, so my account here is not so much about this frame, it’s about what the flash does, and ...

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