Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Jan 2, 2006, at 1:40 AM, Peter Klein wrote: > I want to wish all my fellow LUGgers a joyous, happy prosperous New > Year, filled with good times and good light. > > While I've lurked faithfully, I haven't participated as much as I'd > have liked to lately. My parents are both well into their 80s, and > my Dad's health took an abrupt turn for the worse recently. So > I've been dealing with a lot more than usual lately. > > Half a roll of film from LHSA/San Francisco is still in my M6. I > haven't shot any film since then. Until tonight, when I snapped a > few of some friends using my "new" Canon Serenar 50/1.8 LTM. I > bought this heavy chrome affair a while back, figuring that I'd > test Mark Rabiner's maxim that you can never have enough 50mm > lenses. And because I wanted to try a Planar-formula RF lens for > myself. After a brief sojourn at DAG's to clean out 50 worth years > of schmutz, it's clear, sparkling and ready for action. Pictures > will follow eventually. > > Meantime, please send some good thoughts this way for my father > Milton, photographed here a year ago with an M6TTL and 50/1.5 Nokton: > http://users.2alpha.com/~pklein/family/06Milt.htm a very nice and loving portrait Peter...so hard to see brilliant people get old... Steve > > --Peter > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information