[Leica] By Jupiter!

[dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)]

Thank-you Philippe. That made me feel good :-)

Best,
Daniel

On 7/26/05, Philippe Orlent <philippe.orlent@pandora.be> wrote:
> Daniel,
> Not only you show enjoyable photographs time after time, but you also give
> an appetite for clearly underrated lenses.
> Thanks for showing,
> Philippe
> 
> 
> > From: Daniel Ridings <dlridings@gmail.com>
> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> > Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:43:14 +0200
> > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>, 
> > <rolleiusers@yahoogroups.com>,
> > <MUGers@yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: [Leica] By Jupiter!
> >
> > I've been working as a school manager for Gothia Cup. Gothia Cup is a
> > tournament involving 1600 youth teams (football) from around the
> > world. 29 were living at the school my wife and I were managers for.
> > We live at the school for 8 days, 24 hours a day and solve a problem
> > or two that crops up when you have to make sure 600 people enjoy
> > themselves.
> >
> > Anyway ... back home now and played around with Jupiter (Jupiter-8).
> > The Elmar is nice, but it is slow.
> >
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/By-Jupiter
> >
> > I think it does just fine wide-open at close focusing range:
> >
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/By-Jupiter/05v30_0003
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/By-Jupiter/05v30_0010
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/By-Jupiter/05v30_0005
> > (sometime I think the only thing the family does is sit around the
> > kitchen table, eating cookies and reading newspapers)
> >
> > Not bad under normal circumstances either:
> >
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/By-Jupiter/05v30_0002
> >
> > One thing led to another, commie glass led to commie cameras etc etc.
> > I'm on vacation, so it's a way to play around.
> >
> > Best,
> > Daniel