Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Simon; Will you be posting anymore? In that I'm about 350 miles south of Disney on the Potomac, I stayed home. Maybe next time. Cheers Wilber - ----- Original Message ----- From: Simon Stevens <simon@camera-craftsman.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 9:22 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Inauguration photos > Thanks to everyone who took the time to take a look at my inauguration > photos and commenting on them. I received some very valuable feedback > off list, and some comments on list to which I'd like to briefly > respond. First of all while I didn't realize I caught Tony after a quick > > trip to Burger King, I was on the lookout for Herrn Fischer in case he > started duffing up one of our fine officers of the law. But I guess I > missed that one. :-) > > Mike D asked about carrying a notebook. I'm much too lazy to do any such > > thing, but I'm fairly sure of the exposures in this case. For one thing > I processed them just a few hours after taking them. For another, I only > > actually shot one roll, so there's not a lot to remember. I also tend to > > be pretty deliberate about choosing a shutter/aperture combination. > Maybe this comes from the fact that until last year I had no camera with > > a built in meter. Or I could just be too wrapped up in technical > irrelevancies, I don't know > > Wilber was nice enough to comment on my printing. Thanks! There's not a > lot to say about it, however. I print on a condenser enlarger, rarely do > > anything fancy like split printing and other than a bit of normal > dodging and burning, these are straight prints. One thing, though, I'm > very grateful to the LUG for turning me on to XTOL. Since I made the > switch my negatives almost print themselves. I just hope the new Delta > 400 reacts as well as the current film does. > > I'm curious: The weather really was horrible. Was I the only LUGGER dumb > > anough to be out there? > > Simon Stevens > > > > > > >