Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/21

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Subject: Re: [Leica] A Leica Moment
From: ray tai <razerx@netvigator.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 16:37:19 +0800
References: <4.3.0.20011021155605.00a7b510@pop.asiaonline.net>

Howard,

I have seen these two gentlemen around the flamingo pond but always with
some kind of Hasselblad with the longest lens I have ever seen in my life!

Ray

Howard Cummer wrote:
> 
> I was walking with my wife today through the Hong Kong Botanical Gardens
> and came upon two old Chinese Gentleman with a younger man assisting. They
> were using Leica SLs, one with a 180 lens and the other with his camera on
> a tripod - a set up with a Leitz two rail bellows and about a 400 mm lens
> (something I'm sure Doug Herr or Marc Small would have recognized in a
> moment) to take pictures of the flamingos clustered near the fence of their
> enclosure. I said hello to the man with the SL and the 180, said that I too
> used Leica and had been shooting the birds a few weeks ago with my 180f3.4
> APO. He smiled but said little. The other photographer had his eye glued to
> his SL with the bellows attached and didn't want to be interrupted so we
> wandered off. From my experience with my 180 the fellow with the 400 will
> get the more dramatic pictures. It was a Leica moment. :)
> Howard.
> 
>
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