[Leica] Rented an SL and its lens for the WFMU Marathon (semi-review, photos)

[Steve Barbour]

thank you.

> On Mar 19, 2016, at 9:17 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> online here:  https://wfmu.org/
> 
> in Jersey City  91.1 and the Hudson Valley 90.1
> 
> On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> 
>>> On Mar 18, 2016, at 9:26 PM, Jeff Moore <jbmmllug at jbm.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Nice. I have fond memory of public radio from our time in America, and
>>> incredibly, we still have mugs from WHYY in Philadelphia from the early
>>> 90s. They have survived several international moves.
>>> 
>>> That's cool!  WHYY in Philadelphia is one of the better public radio
>>> stations, producing some good shows (like Terry Gross's Fresh Air) which
>>> get shared around the network.
>>> 
>>> WFMU, though - WFMU isn't a public radio station in any of the accustomed
>>> senses of the word.  WFMU isn't part of those conventional public-radio
>>> networks (NPR, PRI, APM), and proudly, belligerently sometimes, has
>> nothing
>>> like the style of public radio.  WFMU is a singularity (with a broad
>>> international listenership, by the way).  It's completely freeform (which
>>> is to say that each individual DJ plays or does what that DJ wants to
>> play
>>> or do - within the limits of US broadcast obscenity rules, of course).
>>> There's so much variety that some new listeners are initially kind of
>>> befuddled - because depending on whose slot they tune in for, they could
>>> hear: 78 RPM records and Edison cylinders played on period equipment,
>>> facemelting Nordic death metal, sincere folk singers, Japanese pop,
>>> roadhouse honky-tonk, obscure 1970s pop/rock, straight-ahead rock and
>> roll,
>>> free jazz, twelve-tone modern "classical" music, hard bop, garage rock,
>>> 1980s-sounding jangle rock... or any of a few talk shows.
>>> 
>>> http://www.wfmu.org/table
>>> 
>>> One of the secrets to happy listenership is that once you identify your
>>> favorite DJs - people whose taste frequently aligns with your own - you
>> can
>>> listen to their shows at your convenience, because shows at WFMU are
>>> archives and playable on demand (via the website or via the Android or
>> iOS
>>> apps).
>>> 
>>> http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/
>>> http://www.wfmu.org/mobile.shtml
>>> 
>>> If any people here want to tell me (off list - I've done almost enough
>>> plugging here) what kinds of music they like, I'll be glad to recommend a
>>> few shows they might enjoy listening to.
>> 
>> 
>> classical, classic jazz, foreign esp French please Nathan,
>> 
>> 
>> where is this station located? ie out of ?
>> 
>> thanks,
>> 
>> Steve
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> And back partly on topic - I'll continue to drop pictures taken with the
>> SL
>>> in the previously-referred-to Flickr pile.   Some more added this
>> evening:
>>> 
>>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/jbm0/sets/72157665752167155
>>> 
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> 
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