Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Hold on to your leicas! Kyle spoke too soon! Film is not yet dead !
From: "Stuart Phillips" <stuart.phillips@rcn.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 17:31:10 -0400
References: <4136C46C-C755-11D6-86C6-0050E42E6E0B@shaw.ca>

I may have become a bit blase about skateboarding up here in wild Boston,
but I could have captured that action with a view camera, digital or not:-)
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "John Collier" <jbcollier@shaw.ca>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Hold on to your leicas! Kyle spoke too soon! Film is
not yet dead !


> Dude!
>
> The link is to download the 3.2M movie! (If you are on a dial-up,
> consider yourself warned) Absolutely Born to be Wild stuff; the closing
> stunt alone is worth the big download
> :-)
>
> John Collier
>
> On Friday, September 13, 2002, at 09:50 AM, Kyle Cassidy wrote:
>
> > So last weekend I'm out photographing skateboarders
> > (http://mywebpages.comcast.net/ckershenblatt1/dogbite.mov) and what do I
> > discover? That a 17mm lens on a nikon d100 AINT WIDE ENOUGH TO SHOOT NO
> > SKATEBOARDERS PROPERLY. So what did I do? I cried, of course, because I
> > had
> > traded my m6 and 15mm lens to a hobo for some magic beans saying "ha!
> > You
> > fool! Film is dead!"
> >
> > (now when these full frame digi's come out at photokina, don't be
> > standing
> > near the leica booth, the vacuume might suck you off your feet)
> >
> > Now where's that hobo?
> >
> > P.s. I didn't make the movie, just the still photo, my nephew made the
> > movie.
>
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