Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dear Friends, So it is now the 11th of January, and my R8 is due to fly out to Germany today. On Friday, a borrower arrived from Adeal here in Melbourne. The batteries were dead, so I bought some new ones, 6 rolls of film, fitted the 70-180, monopod and headed off on Sunday for the Lavender festival, determined to test out my "skills" with the telephoto zoom lens. It was hot, sunny crowded and a lot of fun. The lavender was in full bloom and its perfume filled the air. Childred played, there were buskers, people dancing, May poles, stalls Llama rides, lavender products and lavender harvesting. Hats, summer finery, smiling faces, hot sun and a cooling breeze, beautiful shady trees and open fields of purple - what a day for a daydream, but the camera "froze" after 2 shots never to rise again, and I spent a hot day "Lugging" the 4kgs of dead electronics around. Just to "rub-it-in", I meet an M6 user busy snapping away, whose only comment was - Leica should have left electronics to the Japanese!!!! I'm beginning to believe him :-( Oh well, back to ------ Alastair Firkin, http://users.netconnect.com.au/~firkin/AGFhmpg.html