Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/19

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Subject: [Leica] Power Failure
From: robertbaron1 at gmail.com (Robert Baron)
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:07:53 -0600
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==On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 12:49 PM, H&E Cummer <cummer at 
netvigator.com>wrote:

> Hi Luggers,
> Last night high winds (+80 kmp) swept Pender Island with lashing rain and
> blew over enough trees to cause the power to fail.
> There was nothing to do - no internet, no TV, no radio. So I went to bed
> to read by flashlight. Taken with the redoubtable D800E
> and the 50mm Nikkor f1.4. Some say the 50 Nikkor is not up to the D800E
> 36Mp but my old version seems to work fine.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Canada2012/Readingw.jpg.html
>
> http://tinyurl.com/d3xylbs
>
> Please look large, as always, and C&C always
> welcome
>
> Howard (on Pender where the power came on again at 2:30 am - I know
> because I left the lights on when the power went off!)
>
>
>
That's pretty good, Howard....holding a book, a flashlight and a camera.

Tripod + self-timer?  Voice-activated spouse?

;-)

--Bob


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