[Leica] Weekend in Washington D.C.

[fbrunell@bonzai.net (Francois Brunelle)]

Luggers,
As I wrote to you last week, I was in Washington this weekend primarely
testing a 50mm Summicron I bought.  Everytime I try something new, I go
to the Washington Aquarium and take some shots of the fishes there.
It's never been an easy task (ie. low available light level, reflection
in the glass, tiny tiny fishes,...etc.).  I must tell you that the M6
passed the test with flying colours.  Talking about colours: I had in
the camera a Kodak PJC 1600 colour negative film.
Beautifulllllllll!!!  You have to try this.  Certainly not as much
colour saturation and contrast you would get from a Velvia transparency
in the sunshine, but very close.  I was able to maintain the shutter at
around 1/60 most of the time ( and sometimes 1/30 and 1/15) and the
diaphragm opened at f4.0 and  f5.6

I was even surprised I could come up with very sharp pics at 1/15.  Try
that with an F5 if you can!!  I've seen a thread on weddings recently,
although I do not recommend that you test anything at somebody elses
wedding (!!!??!!) but yours, I can certainly tell you that it is a
marvelous film.  The colour palette is very Kodak like (lot of blue,
yellow; green and red in balance).

Ciao.

Francois Brunelle
Ashburn Va