Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This guy? http://gilplant.com/paw/wk23.html On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 02:53 PM, Bill Satterfield wrote: > Went to the Big Apple last week on business. While there, got by Rich > Pinto's place for Leica Day and met him personally. I have a black M7 > on > back order. Seems to be as nice in person as on the phone. Visited Ken > Hansen's. Nice people there too. It snowed Thursday and I met a > African > American photographer on Times Square taking pictures in the snow > with > a Speed Graphic of tourists. He agreed to let me take his picture with > my M loaded with Tri X rated at 200. I was trying to set the exposure > and could not get a correct exposure light in my viewfinder. I had my > f2 35 lens mounted. He asked about my film speed then said f2 at 1/8th. > Sure enough, the correct exposure light came on. I questioned the 1/8th > and camera movement. He said take a deep breath, hold it and press the > shutter. Should be right on. I will let you know after I develop. > Anyway, he was a real interesting subject. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html