Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ian, I hope that you are still using the Stocklers Two Bath soup with you b/w negs. Maybe you will call in to see us when you are passing through ? Arthur - ---------- > From: Ian Stanley <ian@mos.com.np> > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] R8: Matrix Metering and your EI for transparencies > Date: 09 May 1998 04:10 > > At 08:58 PM 98-05-08 EDT, you wrote: > >Dear LUGnuts: > > > >BTW, Ian in Katmandu - are you going to take that R8 home or just let them > >leave it on the shelf????? hee hee hee > > > >Pete Myers > > > Hello Pete, > > The R8 still sitting on the shelf waiting for someone else to buy it as I > leave in three weeks for a 7 month trip out of Nepal. I could by the > camera and lens but would have to cancel the trip. My kit for the trip > will be a 4x5 field camera with 210mm lens, my new M6 HM (which arrives > next Saturday), M4-P, 35mm Summaron, 50mm Summilux and 90mm Elmarit -M. > > The trip involves 2 1/2 months of travel around Canada, 3 months based in > England with shorter side trips around Europe, two weeks in the > Mediterranean, two weeks in Thailand and then returning to Kathmandu on > December 31. The majority of time will be spent cruising for snaps with > some time taken out so that I can catch up with the rest of the world on > scanning and digital darkroom stuff - I have no intention of ever giving up > on my b&w darkroom though. > > Cheers > > Ian Stanley > > Kathmandu, Nepal