[Leica] Film from the Santa Fe spring shoot

[jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith)]

I was skeptical of the M8 until this morning. Now I am its biggest fan, at
least for traveling. But the trip to Santa Fe was by no means a total or
even major loss. I had the opportunity to visit some people I had met at the
New Orleans Spring Shoot, and had an even greater opportunity to meet, talk
with, and share lunch and dinner with people with whom I've sort of met (via
email) over the past 7 or 8 years. Phil Swango, Greg and JoAnn Lorenzo,
Brian and Virginia Reid, Henning and Tanya Wulff, Mark Rabiner, and Stasys
Petravicius (try pronouncing that...there are two correct pronunciations).
The weather was beautiful, the food was magnificent, I came nowhere near
getting mugged at any time of day or night, and I found a wonderful
restaurant in the middle of nowhere between Taos and Espagnol (Jack Bauer
wouldn't have been able to find it).

The keynote speaker was very good. And I was once again surprised by how
*little* overlap there is between the LHSA and the LUG. If Kyle thinks the
LUG talks too much about their cameras without putting them to work, we are
actually doing quite well here.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com
http://400tx.blogspot.com/



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[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Brian
Reid
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 4:33 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: RE: [Leica] Film from the Santa Fe spring shoot


I'm in the Albuquerque airport as I type this, having just passed through
security. They did exactly the same thing to me, even using the same words
("I need some help here"). But all I had in the bag was an M8 and some
lenses for it. And half a dozen SD cards and some spare batteries. They ran
it through their scanner about 6 times, seriously annoying the people who
were behind me in line, and then took it out of my sight, probably to pour
chicken blood on it.

I know from my days at NASA helping with the design of computer networks for
the Space Shuttle that SD cards can be erased or changed (but not
permanently damaged) by radiation. But the only pictures I still had on the
SD cards are the ones I took this morning in Los Alamos; all the rest got
safely uploaded to my laptop and then burned onto DVDs. DVDs are not damaged
by the kind of radiation they use here.


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