Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Pray don't bother answering my so SIMPLISTIC questions on the HUG list - my god, Hasselblad's too? There must be no end to the type of cameras you DON'T take pictures with. And why is this subject so important? Why because I frequent these virtual forums to learn from (drum roll...) *photographers* who know more than me. Your second paragraph is so telling - to prove your chops as a professional photographer it takes you exactly 27 words before you're boasting about gear! A Leica V-35 - man, those office walls must just be plastered. I'm getting overwhelmed by the vapors just thinking about it. So all in all, if the old Phillips name pops up asking how to use a Zeiss Fernspitopticon, don't put yourself out. There are others out there who know as much or more than you (really) who wear their learning more graciously. Cheerio Stuart Phillips - -----Original Message----- From: Marc James Small [mailto:msmall@infi.net] Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 5:59 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: [Leica] An Answer to Stuart Phillips At 05:10 PM 7/29/02 -0400, Stuart Phillips wrote: >Oh, BTW did any of those really large gorgeous prints happen to belong >to the other Marc? Were they fiber or RC or even inkjet? Stuart Pray, don't be so petty. I haven't a clue why you keep raising this. While I have done professional photography on and off for the past decade, I am not so regularly employed. Hence, my photographic work is my own and not for general distribution. (Though, if you wish, come by my office in Roanoke, Virginia, and I'll be glad to show you a bunch of it, mainly mounted on my walls.) I have done a couple of CD covers for a Jazz group and have done some shots to accompany a DOWNBEAT article on Royce Campbell, as well as other shots of local Jazz groups which have been run in my local newspaper and in a local-affairs magazine. I do a fair amount of photography. If you will check the archives, you will find that I do my own darkroom work, that I have a Beseler 23 C-II with a 2.8/50 APO-Rodagon and a 4/80 APO-Rodagon and a Leitz V35 with the standard 2.8/40 Focatar, that I process my own black and white stuff and, when I am not overwhelmed by the vapors, my own C-41, RA-4, and Ilfochrome stuff. I realize BD seems to object to condsidering this sort of thing "photography" for undisclosed reasons but, as I am a student of camera lore, much of my photography is of cameras and related gear. You can see one of my pictures of such on the bottom of page 9 of the current VIEWFINDER. Others are available in my several articles in VIEWFINDER and the JOURNAL OF THE ZEISS HISTORICA SOCIETY. And, then, there are a bunch of shots I made in my two books, NON-LEITZ LEICA THREAD-MOUNT LENSES: A 39mm DIVERSITY and THE ZEISS COMPENDIUM (co-authored with Charlie Barringer). Finally, if you want a current example of my photography, check out http://www.camerabooks.com For your purposes, it IS a good thing that I am a student of camera gear, so that I could answer your rather simplistic query over on the Hasselblad List about Luminars. Some of the pictures referenced above with shot with Luminars or Photars. Now, kindly, back off, or take this off-List. Marc msmall@infi.net FAX: +276/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html