Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/12/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Have a great one yourself as well Ted! I am very sure that you will have many glasses raised to you across the world on Christmas Day! Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman On 23 December 2013 05:18, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: > Nathan OFFERED: > >> But I am sticking to the Leica thing, and so only pictures taken with the >>> >> M8, or pictures taken with the Fuji X-Pro 1 and a Leica lens are eligible > for selection.<< > > Hi Nathan, > Good on you lad! Thank you. > Nice to see some semblance of LEICA order here about's! I had an M6 one of > my last, I > gave to my grandson after he graduated from photo-college two years ago. > He shoots with it all the time for fun. Then drops his film off at a local > lab for souping and contact sheets. Then comes here and makes his prints. > > I have an M8 and a few Leica glass elements (lenses) left. > 1/ My Noctilux (first one sold in CANADA) way back when! They'll have to > pry > from my cold dead hands! Naw my hands will always be ready for warm photo > action right to the dying moment. Only because the devil will have me > shoveling coal? ;-) ;-) One handed! As my M8 will be in the other! ;-) ;-) > > 2/ 90mm Summicron! I very much enjoy to this day. > > ( a couple of non-Leica) > > 3/ 35mm 1.4 NOKTON ! Another incredible lens as sharp as a razor blade. :-) > > 4/ 15mm Voightlander f 4.5 An absolutely all round fun lens! :-) One can > shoot > some quite different images with a depth of sharpness from the tip of your > nose to the moon and back!:-) > > I suppose as I dream of having an S2 and a few lenses one of these > days after I win the $50,000,000 million Canadian lottery???? Yep still > hoping and buying tickets! WHY? Well you just never know??????? ;-) > > Hey folks, one should never stop hoping for good fortune and a happy life! > Yes!! Even at the times when you are at the pit bottom of Grief! :-( If you > pull up your socks and look for the "LIGHT?" A "PHOTO-LIGHT" have faith and > you'll find it! Always think of "The Art of Observation!" > > I was going to shoot a bunch of Christmas decorated homes, but it's > raining and I'm not taking any chances of falling on my butt a few days > before Christmas! :-) > So instead, as it just came to mind as a subject? I think I'll shoot some > images of the fire place roaring away just for fun and see what one can > capture in the imagery of the flames! ;-) > > There, rain part solved! :-) Besides it'll be warm and cozy instead! See? > Always think positive and look for the light!! :-) :-) :-) > > Have a good one everybody ! > > cheers, > Dr. ted :-) :-) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >