Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/11/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]LUG citizens, my LUG friends know that I have recently had a short trip to Amsterdam and Barcelona. My wife had a conference in Sitges in Catalonia and we took the opportunity to visit Amsterdam along the way, to meet some BeneLUG folks and other RF friends. Then we managed to catch up with Nathan and Luis in Barcelona. Our group for an afternoon or dinner in Amsterdam was Michiel, Philippe O, Sytze, Sander, Els and Meino. That's some LUG folks and some Leica or Rangefinder Forum folks. It was a fabulous, stylish and fascinating city and meeting up with like minded people made our visit all the more enjoyable. Sander recounted a tragic tale involving a tsunami and sunken Leicas, then showed me his M8 and WATE. I took the challenge and shot a couple of frames at 16mm on my M7. Don't need no steenkin' finder. My wife who was inadvertently in profile at the edge of the frames, has vetoed the 16mm shots from publication. Meino and Elsje proved to be charming, friendly and talented people. You can see some of their work on-line here www.innerside.demon.nl <http://www.innerside.demon.nl/> . Meino's pictures for the day improved considerably once he placed film in his M and Els was shooting with a film SLR (the N type!). Sytze was a funny and friendly man, shooting a Contax G2 and displaying a very Australian style sense of humour! Efforts by Sytze and Michiel to improve my Dutch language skills were not all together successful. When I learn my next word it will double my vocabulary there. My Amsterdam gallery starts below. This is all with the M7, the Summilux asph 50 and the Summicron asph 28. The colour shots are from the Provias (100F, 400F) and the bw is all Neopan 400 in dilute XTOL. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/a/1/a01.jpg.html http://tinyurl.com/24yw4u Comments and critiques are always welcomed. Cheers, Hoppy <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/a/> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/a/