Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/07/22

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Food Banks Project
From: gerry.walden at icloud.com (Gerry Walden)
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 15:19:59 +0100

As some of you may know I am currently working on a social documentary 
project about food banks in my city. The purchase of the Leica M9 came in 
the middle of this, and I was a little concerned about shooting at low light 
levels so I used it on my latest shoot on Monday. These two guys were 
?sanctioned? for separately missing appointments with the benefits office. 
There are no excuses for this, illness etc. doesn?t count. There sanction 
was absolutely no state aid for 6 weeks, so they were at the food bank for 
free food, which they can only receive for 3 weeks a year because there is 
insufficient food to meet demand.

I think the camera and LR coped very well in a basement room with normal 
levels of lighting and no natural light at all. BTW, the lens was a 35mm 
Summarit f2.5

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gwpics/LAE-1000050.jpg.html

Comments are welcome, but I do not want to get into any political 
discussions etc. I am just there to record what I see.

Gerry

Gerry Walden LRPS
www.gwpics.com
+44 (0)23 8046 3076 or
+44 (0)797 287 7932















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