[Leica] Summarit Examples for Lluis

[Nathan Wajsman]

Funny, I don’t remember him at all—and I lived in Zurich at the time (2000-2003).

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman

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> On 12 Apr 2020, at 16:02, Marty Deveney via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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