Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/10/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Arne Helme Age 31, unmarried, no children PhD in Computer Science Enschede, The Netherlands Nationality: Norwegian, I have lived most of my life north of the arctic circle. I moved to the Netherlands in 1992 to join a research programme at one of the Dutch universities. Currently, I am still living in the Netherlands working as a postdoc on a grant from the Norwegian Research Council. The research areas are distributed systems and the (lack of) security in electronic payment systems. My primary hobby over last 15 years has been astronomy, but this hobby has slowly evolved to cover photography as well. I used to shoot with my father's Canon Ftb until I could afford my own F3HP (and more recently an M6). Although my photographic skills do not (by far) equal my investments in photographic equipment, I do enjoy using these cameras a lot. At least, I cannot blame the equipment whenever I shoot poor quality pictures. In that respect I am not much of a practician yet---something I hope will change as I gain more experience---particularly with the M6. Thus, a hobbyist's approach to photography. I am to some extent also collecting cameras. In my possession I also have the cameras that were used by the older generations in my family: my grand-granfather's old Kamera Werkstatten Pilot-6, my grandfather's Rollei 35, and my father's Canon Ftb. Camera gear: Leica M6 chrome + 2.0/35mm ASPH (chrome) Nikon F3 + 2.8/28 + 1.2/50 + 2.5/105 Nikkors (AIS) Astro gear: Celestron Celstar-8 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope Tele Vue Pronto 70mm spotting scope Tele Vue 4.8mm, 9mm, and 20mm Naglers and 35mm Panoptic eyepieces Wish list: M-2 (or M-4) 10x50 Trinovid 2.8/21mm Elmarit-M ASPH Small flash unit for the M6 (suggestions are welcome!) - -- Arne | Arne Helme (arne@acm.org) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us | | http://www.huygens.org/~arne are looking at the stars" - Oscar Wilde | | PHONE: +31-53-4894178, FAX: +31-53-4894590, HOME: +31-53-4309352 | | Informatica/SPA, Univ. Twente, Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, Netherlands |