Re: [Leica] Leicas in Paris

[Henry Ting <henryting10@yahoo.com>]

Very true. I remember once a champion bass fisherman
in answering to the question whether its his equipment
that allow him to catch so many bass. His reply, "Hell
no... no equipment can help me if there are no bass to
catch in the first place".

- --- Steve Unsworth <mail@steveunsworth.co.uk> wrote:
> I've just had the most amazing Leica day of my life
> here in Paris. I met up
> at noon with fellow LUGer Guy Bennett and we ambled
> from Hotel de Ville to
> rue Moufftard in the 5th - anyone who can't take
> street photos in rue
> Moufftard shouldn't have a camera it's _that_ good.
> Took photos for an hour
> and a half or so and then started to walk up the
> street back towards the
> centre of town.
> 
> Along the way I was saying to Guy how I really
> envied Kyle and his ability
> to interact with strangers, for example within 15
> minutes of arriving in
> Bucharest he was in a sewer shooting street kids (an
> exaggeration Kyle, but
> you know what I mean), when this French guy says to
> me 'didn't I see you
> earlier photographing with a Noctilux?' Yes I reply
> and pull out the Nocti.
> He was shooting with an M6 and a new 28mm Summicron
> and had a 50mm Summicron
> in his jacket pocket. So we wander along, the three
> of us talking about
> photographers and Leicas when he asks if we want to
> see his 'lab'.
> 
> Sooo, we take the bus to his place. It turns out he
> rents two flats in his
> block. One is where he lives and the other is his
> darkroom. What would
> normally be the living room is where he keeps his
> prints and his Leicas. And
> he is one serious Leica guy. At one point he pulls
> out an M4-P with one of
> Tom's rapid winders, now I've never seen one of
> these in the flesh, much
> less tried one. After trying it, all I can say is
> that as a left eye shooter
> I want one, heck I need one! In addition he had all
> the lenses from 21mm to
> 90mm and about 3 or 4 M6s, all classics (including a
> silver one his 'Sunday
> Leica'). Also there we are sat in a 4 by 4 metre
> room with three Noctiluxes
> sat the coffee table :-)
> 
> His darkroom had 3 enlargers, one per format you
> might think, wrong! One per
> print size, the one for doing 20 x 30 was huge -
> with a motorised column for
> the enlarger body.
> 
> Perhaps the biggest surprise was that several of his
> prints for his next
> exhibition (subterranean Paris) had been taken with
> a Minilux, I want a
> Minilux! The sharpness, everything taken on Tri-X
> and developed in D-76 was
> amazing for a P&S. Correction it was sharp full
> stop. I thought Tri-X was
> meant to have grain.
> 
> And then, just when you would think things couldn't
> get better we went to
> his 'proper' flat to meet his girlfriend and drink
> some single malt whisky.
> 
> His name was Jean-Ever Le Roy just in case any of
> you have ever seen his
> work.
> 
> An amazing day.
> 
> Steve
> 
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