Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/31

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Subject: Re: [Leica] so have you been good?
From: Marshall Hunt <huntmc2@fuse.net>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 23:39:13 -0400
References: <200106010023.f510NS251640@riverside.haddockseyes.com>

Brian: You have my sincere sympathy.  Marshall

Brian Reid wrote:
> 
> My father died last weekend; his funeral was yesterday. I've been very
> distracted and have not been reading the LUG. I might choose not to go
> back and read a week's worth of LUG unless there's some
> tempest-in-a-Nikor that I need to know about.
> 
> Yes, I had my Leica in the room when he died. No, I haven't developed
> the film yet. I exposed Tri-X at 800 and I've never done push processing
> before; I'm going to do some reading before I pour any chemicals. ICUs
> are dark places.
> 
> I'm going to write a message about the actual photography in a while.
> I must confess that while I was taking pictures, I kept remembering
> Tina Manley saying that she liked to use Leicas because they can take
> pictures in the dark.
> 
> I think the LUG archive search engine is broken; it seems to be
> returning only matches from Volume 19. Damn. It takes about 30 hours of
> computer time to regenerate the index. Maybe after I recover from this
> trip I can figure out what's wrong without having to rebuild the whole
> search index.

In reply to: Message from Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> ([Leica] so have you been good?)