Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dave, Thanks for posting the picture. California's Central Valley is little understood by the outside world. (and the location is only a few miles from West Coast Imaging in Oakhurst)! | The photograph was shot with my 1954 M3 (first production run complete with | glass back plate) and a 50/2.8 Elmar collapsible (the '60s version, not the | latest). Ironically, I sold the lens several years ago because I read | somewhere that it wasn't very good. That was back when worried about such | things :-). The film was KR25. Aperture was f4. Don't know the shutter | speed, but it was slow. The image was underexposed, which is why scanning | was difficult. Here's the image (not the 60MB version, just a 100K JPEG :-)) | | http://www.lightcurves.com/agriculture/peaches.htm | | The tree in the photo was one-of-a-kind, some kind of white peach hybrid. | It died a couple of years ago and with it one of the most delicious fruits | I've ever tasted. Munching on exotic varieties of peaches all summer long | is one of the things I remember about growing up in the San Joaquin Valley | of California. I don't miss the weeks of 100 degree plus says in July and | August. But I miss the fruit, and the smell summer. This image brings that | all back. It becomes more important with each passing year. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html