Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Reading that Oddmund doeesn't use a bag reminds me of the old saw- "How do you know if'n you are a redneck?".... If, when you are deciding which camera bag to use on any given day, your choice is either...Paper or Plastic! Dan (Double-bag that Leica, Please!) Post - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Oddmund Garvik" <garvik@ifrance.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 11:04 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Magnum > Mer 02 mai 2001 06:38:44 -0700 > Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com> a écrit: > > > Actually this is a political troll Oddman. Since you've been gone we've > > got a pretty hard core no politics rule going here on the lug. We avoid > > politics like a plague its too incendiary. Although I'm sure we could > > have equal fun with abortion and religion. Might be what life is all > > about but it's not what this list is all about. Plenty of political hang > > banging elsewhere. Let's hear about your latest lens caps. Are they > Titanium? > > :) > > Well, I don't know if I'll call it "political". Let's change the term, > let's call some sort of objection. This is a doublesided part of > photography, and Leica is deeply linked to it. I could probably avoid > comments on Bush II and others, but then we must also avoid all those > small "innocent" (and very reactionary) comments that often are pouring > through this forum. > > Lens caps? I don't know if I ever had any, or I must have lost them long > time ago. No, I just have two old, but excellent M-Leicas with 35 and 50 > mm lenses, a Contax T2, an Olympus Mju-2, a Nikon FM with a 105mm, a light > meter somewhere, lots of undeveloped films in a freezer, lots of negs > (even if I lost all my pre-1985 work, and parts of later work as well). I > have no bags, no zing or zang, no winders or soft release buttons (I > should probably try one of those). I like it simple and basic - less > distortion that way. > > I haven't put up a web page yet, but at least I have a computer now that > makes it possible to see digitized images [and I have discovered another > LUG (Linux Users Group)]. I must try to find a reasonable scanner and find > some time as well. I'm bloody busy... now, back to the lawn mower! > > Oddmund Garvik > > ____________________________________________________________________________ __ > ifrance.com, l'email gratuit le plus complet de l'Internet ! > vos emails depuis un navigateur, en POP3, sur Minitel, sur le WAP... > http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/email.emailif > > >