Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/26

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Subject: [Leica] By Jupiter!
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Tue Jul 26 13:19:12 2005

Daniel,
Not only you show enjoyable photographs time after time, but you also give
an appetite for clearly underrated lenses.
Thanks for showing,
Philippe


> From: Daniel Ridings <dlridings@gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:43:14 +0200
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>, <rolleiusers@yahoogroups.com>,
> <MUGers@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Leica] By Jupiter!
> 
> I've been working as a school manager for Gothia Cup. Gothia Cup is a
> tournament involving 1600 youth teams (football) from around the
> world. 29 were living at the school my wife and I were managers for.
> We live at the school for 8 days, 24 hours a day and solve a problem
> or two that crops up when you have to make sure 600 people enjoy
> themselves.
> 
> Anyway ... back home now and played around with Jupiter (Jupiter-8).
> The Elmar is nice, but it is slow.
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/By-Jupiter
> 
> I think it does just fine wide-open at close focusing range:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/By-Jupiter/05v30_0003
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/By-Jupiter/05v30_0010
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/By-Jupiter/05v30_0005
> (sometime I think the only thing the family does is sit around the
> kitchen table, eating cookies and reading newspapers)
> 
> Not bad under normal circumstances either:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/By-Jupiter/05v30_0002
> 
> One thing led to another, commie glass led to commie cameras etc etc.
> I'm on vacation, so it's a way to play around.
> 
> Best,
> Daniel
> 
> 
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