Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] How not to park ar the side of a Road (off topic)
From: Francesco Sanfilippo <fls@san.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 16:58:29 -0700

Thanks, I'll check it out on the Lowepro site.

Francesco




At 10:45 AM 10/22/98 -0300, you wrote:
>Francesco:
>
>It is the orion AW, a very handy bag.  It has a waiste belt and a shoulder
>strap.  As I have said before on this list, buy Canadian.  LowePro is owned
>by a Canadian Company.
>
>Regards,
>
>Robert
>At 10:05 PM 10/21/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>Robert!
>>
>>Is that bag you have a Lowepro Sideline Shooter?
>>It kinda looks like one, but the top flap doesn't look right,
>>and mine does not have a shoulder strap.  Did you
>>modify yours?
>>
>>Francesco
>>
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>>At 06:56 PM 10/21/98 -0300, you wrote:
>>>Dear Lug  members:
>>>
>>>I thought I would add a little humor to the list today at my expense.  A
>>>fellow Photo Guild member,George Ghiz, and myself spent Monday afternoon in
>>>the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia taking pictures of the pumpkin people
>>>and from the Valley Lookoff.  On the way to the lookoff, I saw a field with
>>>some horses in it that I wanted to take some pictures of.  When I pulled
>>>over to the side of the road, the shoulder was soft and gave away sliding
>>>my truck precariously into it. 
>>>
>>>All of the below pictures were done by George Ghiz with a Nikon N90x and
>>>assorted zooms.  I am in picture rob3.jpg looking at the mess I was in.  It
>>>is me in rob5.jpg using my R7 and 35mm Summicron.  (on topic)
>>>
>>>For Jim Bricks pleasure, the first picture as well as the rest in the
>>>series were taken by George using high end Nikkors with UV filters on them.
>>> I told George that the filter would cause flare!
>>>
>>>
>>>http://home.istar.ca/~robsteve/rob1.jpg
>>>
>>>http://home.istar.ca/~robsteve/rob2.jpg
>>>
>>>http://home.istar.ca/~robsteve/rob3.jpg
>>>
>>>http://home.istar.ca/~robsteve/rob4.jpg
>>>
>>>http://home.istar.ca/~robsteve/rob5.jpg
>>>
>>>http://home.istar.ca/~robsteve/pp1.jpg
>>>
>>>We were only stuck for about ten minutes, as a passer by (in photo
rob2.jpg)
>>>called a local tow truck which was only had to come from the other side of
>>>the pastures.  There was no damage except to my pride.
>>>
>>>I am just waiting for the Jobo to heat up so I can develop my own slides I
>>>took that day.  If I have anything interesting, I will post a wep page.
>>>
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>
>>>Robert
>>> 
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