Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/21

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Subject: [Leica] PAW 3 dlridings
From: dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Sun Jan 21 05:40:06 2007

I know many think that a Leica should be used for street photography,
sticking the light box in the faces of bums, misfits, and what-not.

But I find street photography difficult in the dark, at 1/15 @ 2.0:

http://www.dlridings.com/paw2007/3.html

So later on in the week I'll try and mention some shots that I took
with the 50/2.8 Elmar (LTM) that John Collier wants me to be happy
with before the sale is final. Kind of like this one:

http://www.dlridings.com/paw2007/alt/07v03-0003.jpg

Or with the 90/4.0 screw mount Elmar that I bought for 40 dollars on
the auction place. I had to take it apart and clean it up myself. It
looked like a wet noodle had been left on one of the internal elements
to dry. I just poured Sears Optical Eyeglass Cleaner on it and let it
sit a couple of hours. Seems the smudge was only in the coating, not
etched into the glass. This
is one of them:

http://www.dlridings.com/paw2007/alt/07v03-0007.jpg

But I am rushed now. In between two jobs (hopefully) and ... well,
sometimes things are the pits, sometimes they're just fine.

Daniel

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