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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Food Banks Project
From: gerry.walden at icloud.com (Gerry Walden)
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2015 22:31:18 +0200
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Thank you Nathan, I appreciate your comments.

Gerry

Sent from my iPad

> On 25 Jul 2015, at 21:56, Nathan Wajsman <nwajsman at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Well done indeed, Gerry. I have that lens too, it was the first new Leica 
> lens I bought when I got back into Leica in 2008. In fact, it was the last 
> time I bought a new Leica lens (I have bought several second-hand lenses 
> in the years since).
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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>> On 22 Jul 2015, at 16:19, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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
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>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gwpics/LAE-1000050.jpg.html
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>> Comments are welcome, but I do not want to get into any political 
>> discussions etc. I am just there to record what I see.
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>> Gerry
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>> Gerry Walden LRPS
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In reply to: Message from gerry.walden at icloud.com (Gerry Walden) ([Leica] IMG: Food Banks Project)
Message from nwajsman at gmail.com (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] IMG: Food Banks Project)