Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/23

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Subject: [Leica] trip to france
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Fri Sep 23 16:16:46 2005
References: <012101c5c05b$98ada180$2501a8c0@chartertn.net>

On Sep 23, 2005, at 9:26 AM, John Black wrote:
> Thanks to Nathan and Steve, et al, who kindly advised me on my  
> upcoming trip
> to St. Malo France.  I was surprised to find out how cool it is  
> there now, I
> will dress accordingly.
>
> I seriously considered going hard core and radical this time,
> photographically, and just taking my trusty M3 with new version 50/2.8
> collapsible Elmar and Tri-X alone to be as minimalist as possible.   
> When I
> restrict myself to this combo, I generally get many more good  
> keepers per
> roll than if I take a kit.  Can't quite bring myself to do it this  
> time
> though, but the kit I will have is quite small all of it, M7,  
> 50/1.4 Asph,
> 28 Summicron and 90/4 collapsible Elmar (new) will fit in a bag  
> 6X6X3 inches
> and the whole weighs 4.5 lbs.  Two extra rolls of film also will  
> fit making
> 3 rolls with the one in the camera.  Hoods are on all lenses also.
>
> Wish me luck, I will post some pix when I return.

please post your photos... you will enjoy the place...bon voyage. Steve


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> JB
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