Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/21

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Subject: Re: [Leica] How not to park ar the side of a Road (off topic)
From: Francesco Sanfilippo <fls@san.rr.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 22:05:27 -0700

Robert!

Is that bag you have a Lowepro Sideline Shooter?
It kinda looks like one, but the top flap doesn't look right,
and mine does not have a shoulder strap.  Did you
modify yours?

Francesco





At 06:56 PM 10/21/98 -0300, you wrote:
>Dear Lug  members:
>
>I thought I would add a little humor to the list today at my expense.  A
>fellow Photo Guild member,George Ghiz, and myself spent Monday afternoon in
>the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia taking pictures of the pumpkin people
>and from the Valley Lookoff.  On the way to the lookoff, I saw a field with
>some horses in it that I wanted to take some pictures of.  When I pulled
>over to the side of the road, the shoulder was soft and gave away sliding
>my truck precariously into it. 
>
>All of the below pictures were done by George Ghiz with a Nikon N90x and
>assorted zooms.  I am in picture rob3.jpg looking at the mess I was in.  It
>is me in rob5.jpg using my R7 and 35mm Summicron.  (on topic)
>
>For Jim Bricks pleasure, the first picture as well as the rest in the
>series were taken by George using high end Nikkors with UV filters on them.
> I told George that the filter would cause flare!
>
>
>http://home.istar.ca/~robsteve/rob1.jpg
>
>http://home.istar.ca/~robsteve/rob2.jpg
>
>http://home.istar.ca/~robsteve/rob3.jpg
>
>http://home.istar.ca/~robsteve/rob4.jpg
>
>http://home.istar.ca/~robsteve/rob5.jpg
>
>http://home.istar.ca/~robsteve/pp1.jpg
>
>We were only stuck for about ten minutes, as a passer by (in photo rob2.jpg)
>called a local tow truck which was only had to come from the other side of
>the pastures.  There was no damage except to my pride.
>
>I am just waiting for the Jobo to heat up so I can develop my own slides I
>took that day.  If I have anything interesting, I will post a wep page.
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Robert
>