Re: [Leica] what lenses to bring to boston?

["jim shulman" <garcia@chesco.com>]

DEFINITELY a Leica H kinda town.  Eliminate all those confusing choices.
Jim

- -----Original Message-----
From: Kyle Cassidy <cassidy@netaxs.com>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Thursday, July 13, 2000 5:43 PM
Subject: [Leica] what lenses to bring to boston?


>this weekend i'll be in boston spilling beer on my leica with members of
>the BLUG. i need to know what lenses should i take with me. i hear that
>boston is a completely different focal length from anyplace else i've ever
>been and that the laws of refracton are entirely different there, making
>everything i know about photography in philadelphia useless. (apparantly
>things that are close up there look far away and things that are far look
>close and blue filters give a red tint.) i'm also afraid that there might
>be local ordinances forbidding the use of certian lenses. here's a list of
>all the equipment i own:
>
>1 black leica m6 (1988 model that just says M6 on the front, heavy
>chroming around the top, serial number filed off by some jerk  long before
>i got it, big ding on bottom plate from when i dropped it off a roof while
>photographing bats coming out of a chimney).
>
>1 28mm f 2.8 rokkor (slight nick on filter ring) in M bayonet mount.
>
>1 front lenscap for the rokkor in a+ condition.
>
>1 cannon 1.8 serenar in LTM mount, currently w/ LTM to bayonet adapter.
>
>1  Hello Kitty plush toy.
>
>2 Leica bayonet rear lens caps.
>
>1 Tamrac canvass camera strap (black).
>
>1 no-name camera bag (black).
>
>1 copy of "Nan Golden Portfolio" published in softcover by that german
>company, has a full page ad for the Leica M6 on page 41 and picture of Nan
>in a bar on pages 71 and 72 where she's holding a black leica with a flash
>-- looks like an m6.
>
>1 extra red dot saying "Leica" on the front that i got at a yard sale
>about 4 years ago.
>
>1 box for Leica MC meter (empty).
>
>1 front shade marked "leitz" which doesn't fit either of my lenses (don't
>know where it came from).
>
>1 80-200 f 2.8 (nikon)
>
>1 20mm f 2.8 (nikon mount)
>
>1 nikon sb12 flash (fits f3)
>
>
>thanks for your advice.
>
>kc
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