Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Love that Bacha! Kyle Cassidy wrote: > i was riding my morgan +8 goosedown frame bike to the montblanc store at > the mall yesterday to get a highlighter (the camera shop in the mall sells > the leica digilux, which makes this post on topic) and doing a couple > calculations on my 7.5 inch Huges-Owens 341/3050 Versalog Sliderule along > the way to figure out which lenscap i'd need if i owned any lenses, > pausing momentarily to mentally curse out those @#$-@%^ards who shoot > digital and call themselves photographers. a quick glance at my omega > seamaster sport chrono confirmed that it was about 4:30, plus or minus a > couple of seconds one way or the other. i was overcome with the urge to > let everybody on the list know that i was thinking that, so i rode home > doublequick to post this. oh yeah, and i wanted to say that i'm pretty > sure susan sontag doesn't know what she's talking about but i'm not sure > what she said. or who she is really, but i think she's the editor of ms. > magazine who went to hanoi in 1971. > > feel free to just add "me too" to the bottom of this and copy it back to > the list. > > kc > > can you hear this? i'm sighing very heavily here in philadelphia. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > p.s. here's a brand new shot with a borrowed plug voightlander 35 1.7, > http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/pix/pad/44/carfaxgary.jpg > a little heavy, but very useful focal length and speed.