[Leica] One of the joys of a film Leica

[hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)]

Pictures!? Where are the pictures Jim !? Without them it didn't happen.


Cheers
Geoff
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On 6 April 2014 10:49, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> wrote:

> Negs in the SHOWER???
>
> I have just 2 words for you: Norman Bates!
>
> --howard
>
> BTW, I loved that really snarky comment about the red rings and
> you-know-who's bathtub.
>
>
> On Apr 5, 2014, at 6:34 PM, Jim Shulman <jshulman at judgecrater.com> 
> wrote:
>
> > Today's I was invited to participate in International Pillow Fight Day
> > (yes, there is such a thing).  When I showed up at the park, there were
> > about three or four middle-aged photographers to each pillow fighter.
> > Almost everyone had a mammoth DSLR, most with equally mammoth zooms with
> > red rings at the end (there were so many, you'd have thought it was
> Norman
> > Bates' bathtub!).  When the fighting started, I jumped right into the
> fray
> > with my M3, ISO 400 b/w film, and a CV 28/3.5, which is a really compact
> > lens.  They pounded away (and a few times I was whacked.)  Of course, I
> had
> > no fears whatsoever for the outfit, since both camera and lens are built
> > like a tank.
> >
> >
> >
> > However, I was the only shooter in the middle of it, since everyone else
> > was terrified that one swat would destroy their $2000, 3000 or whatever
> > DSLR outfit.    So, from a distance it looked like a lot of pillow
> > fighters, surrounded by a bunch of guys who looked as thought they were
> > photographing wildlife from a Range Rover.
> >
> >
> >
> > Negatives in the shower drying now.
> >
> >
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Jim Shulman
> >
> > Wynnewood, PA
> >
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