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Subject: [Leica] My First Leica PAW! (Ron de-lurks)
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Sat Apr 17 02:49:59 2004

Hi Ron,
Some truly nice pictures over there to be seen. I love the Holga pictures :)
Just one thing: maybe you should bend your knees from time to time and take
your photos from a lower point of view: sometimes it gives you a more
interesting image.

> From: Ron Price <ron-price@curiousrobot.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 02:22:14 -0400
> To: <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] My First Leica PAW! (Ron de-lurks)
> 
> Hello, all!
> 
> My name's Ron. I'm an amateur (photographer, that is) in Columbus, OH, USA.
> 
> I've been lurking here for a couple of years now... I think I had one post
> when I first started looking at Leicas (and I bought my 35mm Summicron from
> Phong here), but I've been silent since. I've been trying to re-dedicate
> myself to getting out and shooting, so I've started a PAW project. This week
> is the first time since I started where I was shooting with my M6.
> 
> To make my LUG debut all the more nerve-wracking, I had very little (less
> than usual, even) to choose from this week. I did, however, learn two
> things:
> 
> 1) I am not yet capable of estimating development times for films shot at
> ASAs for which I do not have a chart; and
> 
> 2) Even if you underdevelop your film by quite a bit, you can still salvage
> an image if you point your camera directly at the sun:
> 
> http://curiousrobot.com/PAWPics/week16.html
> 
> Not much, I know, but the point of this is to make myself do it, post it,
> and take my lumps, right?
> 
> The PAW index (three weeks old!) can be found here:
> 
> http://curiousrobot.com/paw2004.html
> 
> And some other stuff of mine is here:
> 
> http://curiousrobot.com/gallery1.html
> 
> Thanks to all who look, comment, or criticize! I hope to hear from some of
> you...
> 
> 
> Seeya,
> 
> Ron
> 
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