Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/10/29

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Subject: Roll Call
From: Fred Hess <fredhess@worldaccess.nl>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 17:52:01 +0100

Fred Hess, age 43

For 16 years living together with my girlfriend Alexandra.

Profession: photographer / cinematographer.
Wildlife-, nature-, environmental- and photojournalistic photography and
cinematography. Next to macrophotography and photomicroscopy, I am a
specialist on the issue "man-nature-animal relations".

I use Leica's for 25 years, starting with a Leica III (l933) which I got
as a present from a neighbar!
During my education as a photographer I started with a brooken Leica M3
(viewfinder: "black"= brooken prism. After repair it served me for
several years as my starting Leica with a Summicron 35mm.

Now I use several M-Leica's: M2, MDa, M4-p, M4-2 and M6 with S.A.21,
Elmarit 21, Summicron 35, Summilux 50 and Summicron 90mm. And 2 Visoflex
III-mirror-houses  and bellows II with compendium, which I hardly use
nowadays.

I also use R-Leica's: R4, RE and R8 with Fish-Eye Elmarit-R 16mm, S.A.
21, 28mm, Summicron-R 50, Summicron-R 90,Macro-Elmarit-R 100, Elmar-R
180, Apo-Telyt 2.8/280mm, Telyt 400 and 560mm.
Photars 12,5mm, 25mm and 50mm.

Microscopes:LEITZ HM-Lux and Dialux. BF,DF,Phase-contrast,fluorescence
and opaque ill. and TTL-flash with Leica RE and/or Leica R8.

Cine-camera: Arriflex 16mm and Super 16mm

Video-equipment: SONY Hi-8 prof. and Betacam Sp/Sx. Several CCTV-cameras
for use on the microscope.


Hobbies: Cycle-racing, mountain-biking, Laurel & Hardy (member of "Sons
of the Dessert", Perfect Day-tent, Holland) cooking (Italian) and
camping & canoeing.


Fred Hess

Den Haag   / the Hague
Nederland / the Netherlands (NL)

tel + 31 70 325 83 12    fax + 31 70 325 86 34