Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/27

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Less Equipment...Getting Down to the Scrotal Elements
From: Daniel Ridings <daniel.ridings@muspro.uio.no>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 03:37:30 +0200 (MEST)

> My advice is keep the kit trim
> and see what you can do without any bag at all!

Need the bag, gotta have the bag. There's a supply of snuff to be carried
around (with back up since I lose cans of snuff more often than I drop
cameras), keys, ... why deny the perfect excuse for carrying a purse
around?

Don't know about the CL. My wife dropped it. Never fixed it.

Daniel

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Ken
> Firestone
> Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 8:22 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Less Equipment...Getting Down to the Scrotal
> Elements
>
> On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Buzz Hausner wrote:
>
> <SNIP>
>
>    For me, this is the core of Leica photography.  Travel light and
>    minimize the decisions one must make to capture any fleeting
>    moment.
>
> I too have a small kit that I use, a 60's vintage M2, 35/2 Sumicron
> and a 90/2.8 TE. I also have a screw mount 21/4 SA that may be added
> to the mix. All this plus the little Gossen digilux meter fit in an
> old Tenba bag I have had for years. The Gossen is now attached to a
> mini keyback on my waistband, where it is very convient. One of these
> days I will get the CL claed, and them it might find its way back into
> the bag.
>
> Years ago I used to carry a small Domke canvas bag with two Olympus om
> bodies, a 21/2 (why no one else was ever able to make a 21/2 remains a
> mystery, its a wonderful lens), 35/2, 100/2.8 and maybe a 180/28. All
> compact and easy to carry.
>
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> Ken Firestone, W3CAT     | For every problem there is one solution
> kenf@speakeasy.net	 |  which is simple, neat, and wrong.
> ken@firestone.net        |   -- H. L. Mencken
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