Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Daniel: Nice shot of your mom, she looks to be a pleasant person. How did you convince her to cut the grass for you? No spotlights - tracklights on your photography wall? That's a fairly good price for the N90S, about half of the going price here. Jim - http://www.hemenway.com Daniel Ridings wrote: > It's a busy time now (I'll get to that) ... and this first shot was one of > the many I took and my walks back and forth to the office in Oslo: > > http://www.dlridings.com/paw2004/19.html > > It was the light on the new spring leaves that attracted me. That clean > green would have been better in color ... but ... I'm just going to have > to get a digital that I konk around all the time. > > Anyway, on my way home from Oslo on Friday I just happened to pass by a > camera store, they just happened to have a large stock of used cameras > that the Norwegian "FBI" (rikskrim) had traded in, so the price just > happened to be incredibly low (around 150 USD), and I just happened to > loose my will-power and got stupid, and when I got home in Sweden, my MOM > just happened to be there, so I just had to try it out (even though it was > late): > > MOM: > http://www.dlridings.com/paw2004/19alt.html > Nikon F90X (= N90s in the US). > > Now I didn't really remember it was mother's day until I read the LUG and > by then it was too late. She's out cutting the grass now, so I've still > got some time to think of something to save my skin. Damn, and Jim on the > RUG even mentioned this ahead of time. I'll figure out something ... > > Daniel