Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/07

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Subject: [Leica] Fun project
From: firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)
Date: Sat Jan 7 15:01:44 2006
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I love the idea of a virtual camera ;-)

On 07/01/2006, at 22:25, Daniel Ridings wrote:

> Sorry, Steve, no I don't know. But I do have a dim recollection of it.
>
> It would be nice if we could use some creative thinking and come up
> with a similar project, bypassing the known pitfalls.
>
> Maybe we could have a virtual camera, each member gets a week (or
> signs up for a week) and is responsible for populating a gallery with
> x number of local shots from that week? Something that wouldn't
> exclude the digital users or the SLR users or the rangefinder users.
>
> Then each member would send a letter with the lovliest stamps from his
> or her country to the next member on the list :-)
>
> Daniel
>
> On 1/7/06, Steve Unsworth <lug@steveunsworth.co.uk> wrote:
>>  There was a similar thing on the LUG with a disposable camera a few 
>> years
>> ago. The idea with that was that everyone would take one shot and 
>> then post
>> it onto the next person in the chain. To the best of my knowledge the
>> project ground to a halt somewhere along the line. Does anyone know 
>> if that
>> project ever ended successfully?
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: lug-bounces+lug=steveunsworth.co.uk@leica-users.org
>> [mailto:lug-bounces+lug=steveunsworth.co.uk@leica-users.org] On 
>> Behalf Of
>> Alastair Firkin
>> Sent: 07 January 2006 03:41
>> To: Leica Users Group
>> Subject: [Leica] Fun project
>>
>> G'day all,
>> our friends at http://www.rangefinderforum.com/ have an interesting 
>> project,
>> which I don't know if its been discussed here. They are sending a 
>> Canon
>> Canonet QL17 around the world. At each stop the photographer runs at 
>> least
>> one roll of film through it of their city and it moves on, results to 
>> be
>> published on the www. It was in Melbourne in October, thought the 
>> images
>> shown in our local paper were not even in the hunt of being good: 
>> they would
>> not have scored on FOM2, but it did strike me as a fun project and 
>> one worth
>> watching out for.
>>
>> Any one here involved?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
>> Alastair
>>
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In reply to: Message from firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin) ([Leica] Fun project)
Message from lug at steveunsworth.co.uk (Steve Unsworth) ([Leica] Fun project)
Message from dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] Fun project)