Re: [Leica] Spring SLUGfest

["onetreehillclw" <onetreehillclw@compaq.net>]

Nice shots there Tom. If I would have known Guiness was involved, I would
have made the trip from N'awlins.

Chris Williams

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Finnegan" <TomF@piengr.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 12:06 PM
Subject: [Leica] Spring SLUGfest


> A few members of the SLUG got together last friday to meet up with
Alastair
> and Helen while they were here in the rainy city for a few days. It was
> great to meet up with them and talk cameras, photography, home remodeling,
> and all sorts of other topics. Hopefully we'll get a full report of all
> their adventures down the west coast once they make it back home.
>
> After a few pints of Guinness though, things started to get serious and
the
> Leica stacking began. I suspect that Alastair may have talked to Kyle
before
> meeting up with us as he quickly started popping down Dramamine and
Prozac.
> Things had gone around the table a couple times, and the stack was getting
> pretty impressive, when Alastair decided it was time to start playing
> hardball. He promptly pulled out a R8 with a 15 Super-Elmar and delicately
> balanced it lens up on top of Mark's Noctilux equipped LHSA black paint
> beautie. I was just down to my SL with the 560/6.8 Teylt. I quickly
> performed some 3-d dynamic stabilty calculations on a napkin while RP and
> Mark just shook their heads and muttered something about crazy aussies.
>
> At this point Susan had fallen asleep in the corner out of boredom, but
> Helen had been following the action closely. While I scrounged napkins
from
> an adjoining table to complete my calculations Helen blurted out at the
> others, "So, that's it?! What a bunch of babies!" She then slammed down a
> shot of merlot, jumped up and proceeded to balance a pair of barstools
ontop
> of the front element of the Super-Elmar. When Alastair tried to protest
she
> quickly reminded him how he's always going on about how hard the Leica
glass
> and coatings are. I grapped the SL to try and get a shot of the action,
but
> I had used up all my Neopan 1600 earlier in the evening and the only film
I
> had left was some Kodachrome 25. It didn't matter much since I couldn't
> actually get far enough away to get things in focus. We were all kicked
out
> of the bar shortly later.
>
> A few quick scans from earlier in the evening have been put up on
photonet.
> Spring SLUGfest 2001 continues this weekend with a visit from Jeff
Segawa's
> visit. Proper leica stacking photos are promised this time around.
>
> http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder.tcl?folder_id=120075
>
> Tom Finnegan
> Seattle