Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/21

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Subject: [Leica] Daniel's PAW
From: firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)
Date: Tue Dec 21 05:00:49 2004
References: <5.1.0.14.2.20041220210436.00a50a60@pop.2alpha.net>

On 21/12/2004, at 4:19 PM, Peter Klein wrote:

> Don't worry, Alastair, there's still Tri-X in my M6TTL, and every 
> couple of weeks I grab it and shoot a few.   Right now I'm shooting as 
> much digital as possible to see how it does in various situations.  
> Eventually things will settle out into "film is better for X, and 
> digital is better for Y."  I must say, though, every time I pick up 
> the Leica, it's still like coming home, though.  If only the negs 
> could scan themselves. . .

Well now they can: my new scanner is beavering away at 28 old slides 
and so far so good

>
> Seriously, I've procrastinated for several years on FOM and this year 
> I gotta go through my archives and get the good ones to you.

I will open up the board as soon as I can make up my mind on the 
sections for the final year

>
> BTW, do R-D1 shots with Leica lenses qualify for FOM2?  I don't own an 
> R-D1, but some of us do. . .

yes ;-)

>
> --Peter
>
> At 10:13 AM 12/20/04 -0800, Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au> 
> wrote:
>> Agreed ;-0 and the nuisance is that it has cut so much of the group 
>> out
>> of the FOM2 project :-( Oh well, only one more year to go, so do load
>> your old Leicas and look around you. There are so many images we 
>> "need"
>> to have ;-)
>
>
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Alastair


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