Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search](Belated reply from a digest lurker) I took my M6 with 35mm and 90mm lenses along on a balloon ride last fall over southern Pennsylvania. We never topped 500 feet and were often lower so the 35mm got the most use, with the 90 used to isolate details (got a delightful photo of a country church and its graveyard). One unanticipated detail for me was the fact that there were 16 (!) people in the basket, making for little elbow room for lens changing -- the 90mm almost became a projectile! Make sure you have film left for the "capture the balloon" activities and the champagne toast. Also, the pre-firing sequence is spectacular if your ride, as was ours, is at dawn and the initial ignition takes place in darkness. BTW: Film was EI200 color print... (shrieks of outrage). Regards, Steve Alred