Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hoppy, thanks for the memory assist. I do know that
shop -- it's a stone's throw from where my office was
near the Grand Medina on Queen Street (but not so
close now, as we've moved down the street closer to
the Flinders Street Station). Great area to get a
bite, a pint of VB and check out the hardware during
lunch!
Peter.
SF, CA
--- G Hopkinson <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> Peter, Camera Lane run by Robert Lane off Hardware
> Lane in Little Bourke Street. That's a lot of lanes!
> Seem like really nice guys.
> The other staff also friendly folks and a lot of
> goodies in the little shop.
> Dang, it seems almost no-one saw my pictures when I
> originally posted. Sigh, only thirty one pics posted
> over a week or so!
> Melbourne camera shop coverage starts here
>
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/a/Vic/MV8.jpg.html>
>
> Cheers
> Hoppy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Neopan 400 and the Mighty
> Collapsible 'Cron
>
> Hoppy,
>
> That pair of bruisers in the camera shop look
> vaguely
> familiar. Is that shop off Little Collins near
> Queen?
>
> Peter.
> SF, CA
> and sometimes
> Queen Street, Melbourne, VIC
>
>
> --- G Hopkinson <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>
> > It does, (for an old school classic ;-) it does.
> > And look at the Neopan 400 in XTOL 1:3 with a
> modern
> > 50 (yes wide open).
> >
>
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/a/Vic/MV4.jpg.html>
> >
>
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/a/Vic/MV14.jpg.html>
> > This ain't no old style aberration "glow" ;-)
> >
> > Cheers
> > Hoppy
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Neopan 400 and the Mighty
> > Collapsible 'Cron
> >
> > it does write very nicely
> >
> > ric
> >
> >
> > On Aug 31, 2007, at 1:13 AM, bob palmieri wrote:
> >
> > > Folks -
> > >
> > > Shot some B&W over the past couple of weeks and
> > was thinking about
> > > many things I've gleaned from a number of LUG
> > participants. I'm
> > > getting dangerously close to settling on Neopan
> > 400 in Xtol (at
> > > either 1:2 or 1:3) as my default M load, and the
> > collapsible 'cron
> > > is currently a front runner for the delineating
> > device. There
> > > seems to be a graceful character about the
> > transition from the
> > > intended focus plane on outward. As much as I
> > often cast aside the
> > > seemingly sentimental waxings of those who
> > champion them old-school
> > > lenses I must say that I feel somewhat
> susceptible
> > to a certain
> > > graceful ease of imaging. Here's a quick sample
> > of stuff; the shot
> > > of guitar builder Ken Parker (someone with whom
> I
> > work regularly)
> > > was shot with my regular working axe (Canon 20D)
> > with a 50 1.8
> > > Canon EF. The other three are of a more
> personal
> > nature; they may
> > > therefore be of little interest to anyone other
> > than myself. yet
> > > these kindof more intimate snaps are just the
> > thing that the
> > > collapsible/film combo seems to deliver so well,
> > to my eyes (all
> > > from the Neopan 400 roll developed in Xtol 1:2).
> > >
> > > http://www.pbase.com/bobsworld/bw_08-07
> > >
> > > Bob Palmieri
>
>
>
>
>
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