Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ice ? on the wound I mean. Take good care of yourself and of the gear nathan, I'd miss your weekly postings Amiti?s Philippe Nathan Wajsman wrote: > We went for a bicycle ride along the beach yesterday. As always on > those occasions, the M8 was around my neck with the widest lens I own > mounted on it (the 18mm Zeiss), set for f8 and hyperfocal distance. I > would photograph while riding. I have done this on several earlier > occasions. However, yesterday I discovered a couple of things: > > - when you brake hard with just the left hand on the handlebar, the > results are not good ;-) > - the M8 is as sturdy as earlier M cameras (I did protect it when > going down, but the baseplate hit the bicycle and the ground, albeit > not that hard) > - road rash hurts but is curable with single malt > > http://www.greatpix.eu/gallery/4253606_netUM#533527099_VbMuz-O-LB > > When we came home, I put the 75mm on the M8, set it at f2.5 and took > some close-ups of my medicine cabinet (aka the rack of single malts > in our living room) to make sure the rangefinder was not knocked out > of alignment. It was fine. > > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.nathanfoto.com > > Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >