Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/04/12

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Subject: [Leica] Summarit Examples for Lluis
From: photo.philippe.amard at gmail.com (Philippe)
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 16:56:44 +0200
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Looks like there?s still a Stephen Holloway around in Basel - source LinkedIn


Amities

Philippe



> Le 12 avr. 2020 ? 16:02, Marty Deveney via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> a 
> ?crit :
> 
> In the early 2000s there was a LuG member, Stephen Holloway, whose website
> had a series of quite extraordinary photos taken with the 50/1.5 Summarit.
> Bits of his site are archived:
> https://web.archive.org/web/20010331125831/http://www.deepturtle.ch/ but
> his other site is nowhere to be found.  It?s sad that a lot of his work
> seems ?lost? - I?ve not been able to find him elsewhere and lost contact.
> He had a photo of an exquisite young woman on a tram in Zurich that was a
> masterpiece.
> 
> One of Stephen?s tactics was to walk backwards in public places with the
> Summarit wide open and focused at 1m.  As things came into view he
> photographed them.  It sounds like it wouldn?t work but it did.
> 
> It?s one great tragedy of the digital age - we see so much, but so often it
> doesn?t last.
> 
> Marty
> 
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