Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What a pleasant thought. I think I tuned in here at the Saloon in the Mid nineties. Can't quite remember the year. Probably late 96 early 97 I suppose. I began meeting LUGGERS on a trip to Yosemite with George Lauterstein (and several other national parks after that) and I miss him, met Howard very early on then Ted Sandy, Steve U, the Aussie Luggers, Stan in Krakow, Satoshi and NK in Japan, Lluis in Barcelona and the many close friends I made during the 5 years we ran FOM2 project, including Dieter, who sadly also passed away (second LUGGER to check out in the 2 weeks prior to my visiting!). Keeping up with email has become harder, despite faster connections. I suppose there are many more images to look at now, and with digital you can keep "working" later and in "grabs", so time for procrastination seems more limited. Still its been a very wonderful way to spend time for the last decade, so thank you all and Brian in particular. I'm looking forward to the next 10 years with Y'all cheers and Here's luck alastair > I have been enjoying the companionship here since 1998, when I decided to > see for myself what all this Leica stuff was about and bought myself an M6 > and 35mm Summicron. I do not have those anymore, but now I am in my 12th > year on the list. And I have met many of you in person, and in every > single case the person in the flesh turned out to be much nicer than the > e-mail persona. > > All the best to all of you and of course thanks to Brian for keeping the > saloon! > > 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 > > > > On Jan 1, 2010, at 12:37 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >> This second new millennium decade will be better than the first one was; >> which was shaky and wobbly getting out of the gate.. >> Full moon peaking a few hours ago around 2:13PM EST >> But as it was daylight and snowing and overcast so the impact just >> didn't go >> over all that well. Here in NYC. >> According to the LUG archive I got on the boat here 1999. >> February. >> Talking about using enlarging lenes in cameras. >> Lots of familiar names were on then as now and I only skipped over the >> best >> ones. >> Alastair Firkin also a guy named AlastairF tended to reinforce each >> other's >> arguments. >> Austin Franklin >> Several pages worth of B.D. >> Both Bernard Degaute and Bernard Delgado They were able to tell >> themselves >> apart. >> We had Bill Grimwood posting a lot before the seemingly un official >> moratorium of LHSA insiders posting on the LUG. >> Brian Reid made lots of posts. The island of Kirimati was just then a >> volcano with a nuclear warhead in it. >> Names from the past! >> Buzz Hausner >> Byron Rakitzis >> CapsTeeth >> Chandos Michael Brown >> Claire (a gal!?!?!?) >> Dan Cardish >> We always got a post from Dan Post >> Dominique PELLISSIER I remember like it was yesterday gal or no gal. >> Donal Philby we had. A Mole from Zeiss no doubt. >> We had a guy named Doug Herr. He used to get great shots of birds. >> Also Douglas Herr. A close relative of the same genies. >> Dr. Joseph Yao posted dozens of posts. Unfortunately they were all >> about >> Efficacy of Different ?-Lactams against an Extended-Spectrum >> ?-Lactamase-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Strain in the Rat >> Intra-Abdominal Abscess Models. >> Drodgers from sunny Portland Oregon we had. >> Eric Welch posted like a son of a gun. >> And Erwin Puts put his two cents in on a regular basis. Usually ending >> any >> argument. But not always. >> Frank Dernie was very much in the inside lane. As well as his brother >> Frank Filippone. >> The Four Fred's: >> Hess, Hundertmark, Rosenberg, and Zimmerman. >> And these guys didn't even know each other. >> And too many Gary's to even name; >> Elshaw and Todoroff were two. >> We had Jem Kime and his cousin Jeremy Kime trying to outpost each other. >> And they'd finish each others sentences. >> Jim Brick was all over it. >> Jim Shulman chipped in once or twice. >> The late John Black who I knew from LHSA was very active. >> John Brownlow or Johnny Deadman as a major asset till he got to >> Hollywood. >> Now he's driving around in a white Mercedes with the Goldberg variations >> coming out of the speakers. >> John Collier helped out and gave us his typeface. >> Wow I think he posted more than Eric Welch! >> I wonder if some of the Kim's were gals? Or Moles? >> Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter) was here telling us he got better shots >> with a >> Tamron on a Pentax. >> Lots of posts from a guy who just got his first camrea Kyle Cassidy >> I never got a chance to ask LawsonCL if he used a Leica CL. >> My typing was new then. >> LEICAMAN56 posted a whole bunch. I got to know that guy as well. But if >> I >> told you who he was they'd call in the plumbers. >> Our LRZeitlin was there then in 1999. >> >> Yeah, they say 2000 zero zero party over, oops, out of time! >> So 2night I'm gonna party like it's 1999! (Yeah, yeah) >> >> Marc James Small was on the forefront. >> One of his posts was: [Leica] Hey, Eric! Wanna Buy A Bridge in Brooklyn? >> The most recently passed Martin Howard of course posted tons of stuff. >> We'll miss him. >> Michael Hintlian was with us then >> We were all shooting film. >> Michiel Fokkema >> Mike Leitheiser (RIP) from Portland OR. a friend of mine. >> Nathan Wajsman was all over it. >> Omegaman as on. Charlton Heston I guess. >> Pascal was an influential imperative . >> Patrick R. McKee otherwise known as Number two. >> Paul Roark was on do you believe it! I remember that now. >> Photovilla was on. Poncho's brother. >> Redherring posted once: >> Re: [Leica] Beating Dead horses >> And we had Richard W. Hemingway who posted in earnest. >> "Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and >> me. >> They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them >> soft >> where we are hard,... >> Robert Appleby I'll miss. He gave me great advise for getting on in >> life. >> >> I miss Sal DiMarco Jr. who I got to know face to face a bit. And >> telephone >> to telephone. Real telephones not cell phones. >> Sam Shoshan was on the list! wow! >> >> And I miss Steve LeHuray who I got to hang around with once in >> Baltimore. >> Ted Grant was all over it! >> We only got one post from " Thambar". It was a big fuzzy but had a nice >> glow. >> Tina Manley got lots of posts in. >> TTAbrahams was involved with the lug then. >> That's Tom A. from BC. >> He's the person who told me about the LUG in the first place. >> >> The Xavier's were there. >> Logean,and Planellas. >> >> For late bedside reading I'd recommend checking out the LUG Archive. >> Next time I'll look at it by topic instead of name. >> >> Its been a fun ten years! Maybe twenty! Who knows? >> >> M. Rabiner >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Mark William Rabiner >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >