Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/09

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Subject: [Leica] Taupier Museum postings
From: len-1 at comcast.net (Leonard Taupier)
Date: Mon Apr 9 09:20:57 2007
References: <435572.74808.qm@web32514.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Thanks, Tom.

Museum photography is something I wanted to try for the last couple  
of years. I found this little museum in Reading to be somewhat  
special on a miniature scale. The Philadelphia Museum is next on the  
list.

Regards,
Len


On Apr 9, 2007, at 9:35 AM, Tom Pastorello wrote:

>    Thank you for the Philadelphia museum postings,
> Len.  You demonstrate your fine available light skills
> with this very demanding type of photography.  I can
> use only M for very successful museum photography.
> Your work demonstrates to me that the M8 takes its
> place along with the M7, M6 ... as an equivalent tool.
>  Yesterday, I used the M8 for family Easter
> celebrations.  The in-field (no tests) results have
> amazed me.  I used lenses as wide as 24mm, with and
> without 486 filtering and no lens coding.  I could
> detect nothing in any image that suggested a problem.
> The results were indistinguishable from my comparable
> shooting with M6 and color film.  The M8 provides the
> Leica-look!  Tom P.
> P.S. We photographed some of the same works of art at
> that wonderful Philadelphia museum.  (May we forever
> break its association with Rocky.)
>
>
>
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