Re: [Leica] Leica lurking

["Ted Grant" <tedgrant@home.com>]

Hi Donna-Lee,

Good on you girl for posting, please stay with us, as some days Tina needs
another female voice to quieten the pack! ;-)

Keep them thar posts com'n girl nice to have a new poster anytime. And yes
get off yer butt and blast a roll or two through that IIIf, as you have to
keep them limbered up,  much like some of the old guys around here have to
get out and run, er, excuse me, walk a fast mile every other day to keep the
old bod mobile. ;-)

look for you along the way.
ted







Ted Grant Photography Limited
www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Donna-Lee Phillips" <dlp@pacific.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2001 4:59 PM
Subject: [Leica] Leica lurking


> LUGs
>
> I am still not in a position to have anything useful or entertaining to
> post, but I must admit that I am enjoying reading the posts on all
> levels from technocritical to my favorite (and virtually only reliable)
> Latin phrase. I was very interested in Oddmund  Garvik's quoted remarks,
> and tried in vain to find anything about/by him written in English. And
> now... be still my fluttering heart... fountain pens? I remember those
> Shaeffer dollar specials, and still carry two vintage (hey, anything
> from the 70's IS vintage anymore) Pelikans. The only practical use for a
> Mont Blanc is as a photo prop.
>
> It is interesting to speculate about the names of some of the group. For
> awhile I wondered if John Collier was kin to the legendary documentary
> photographer John Collier whom I met in his last years in SF. I think I
> went to school with a Charles Choy, but probably not the same one.
>
> Thanks to the LUGwars over the relative merits of the IIIf, I've taken
> mine off the "sell someday" list, and put it on the "put some film in
> it, stupid" shelf.
>
> I can't help wondering how anyone has time to take, much less process,
> any photographs with the number of posts made, but I ain't complaining.
>
> Lately I've been looking at my boxes of pre-accident B&W negatives, most
> of which I did not choose to print at the time. Now, dusted off, they
> will show me things I had not noticed or did not appreciate at the time,
> as well as reintroduce me to what I believed 'worth printing'. I shot by
> the 'ratio method', and mine was a fairly low count, sometimes not more
> than two negatives per roll of 36--back when film was cheap, and
> bulk-loaded, and processing involved closing the pantry door and hoping
> a roommate didn't come home and flip the blazing kitchen light on while
> I was souping.
>
> More later, maybe even photographs one day.
>
> Donna-Lee
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