Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Daughter Karen is enjoying a glass of Brian's Porter at the town's oldest pub in Blainau Ffestiniog, Wales. Blainau Ffestiniog was the center of the Welsh slate mining industry in the 19th century and gets more rain than any other town in the UK. A narrow gauge railroad connects it to Porthmadog on the coast. You are not expected to remember how to spell these names. As I recall, the beer was served at room temperature and it was very good. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Karen+with+beer.jpg.html An interesting note on the picture. It was taken with my first experimental digital camera, an Agfa ePhoto 307. The camera was about the size of an M3 but weighed much less. It took 35 pictures with its fixed focus lens, allegedly high resolution (180 MB), and stored them on an internal memory. When all pictures were taken, they had to be downloaded or deleted before more could be snapped. I bought the camera in 1995 and it was obsolete just a year or so later. We have come a long way in a couple of decades. Larry Z