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Subject: [Leica] An M8 photograph
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Mon Dec 31 10:42:54 2007
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>> here's a summarex of my daughter kitty.
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/shino/kittarex.jpg.html


what a lovely child Rei, and a beautiful image...Steve




>>
>>
>> i like the lens.  i got it on a whim from eb*y a couple of
>> years ago after i got a IIIf and hankered a couple of LTM lenses
>> to go with it.  i turns out not to be such an easy lens to use
>> with an LTM (the big shade covers those little windows, and you have
>> to use a finder) but works quite nicely with the m8.
>>
>> -rei
>>
>>
>> On Dec30 20:03, Rei Shinozuka wrote:
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>>
>>> i have a chrome m8 and i confess the summarex looks very handsome on
>>> it.  i think of it as a nice counterpart to the old 35 lux.  the  
>>> summarex is
>>> all the more impressive (if not large) by virtue of being born back
>>> when we were chasing the tirpitz all over the north atlantic.
>>>
>>> i don't think there are 58mm ir cut filters readily available
>>> for it so i am shooting it unfiltered.  i've got some other nice
>>> portraits with it, maybe i'll try to put up.
>>>
>>> -rei
>>>
>>> On Dec30 17:58, Leonard Taupier wrote:
>>>> Rei,
>>>>
>>>> This is a very nice photo. Ted looks ecstatic. I also like the look
>>>> the Summarex gives wide open. I don't recall ever seeing a photo  
>>>> with
>>>> one before. It's really smooth. I love using these old lenses on  
>>>> the
>>>> M8. You get to see it's performance immediately. And easily compare
>>>> them to the newer optics.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for sharing this one.
>>>> Len
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Dec 30, 2007, at 4:26 PM, Rei Shinozuka wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> inspired me to post our own apple christmas.  ted and imac.
>>>>>
>>>>> m8, summarex @ f1.5, no filters.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/shino/tedimac.jpg.html
>>>>>
>>>>> -rei
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Dec 30, 2007 1:15 AM, Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> Leslie, Elizabeth, Tiffany, and Vanessa watch a YouTube video on
>>>>>>> Elizabeth's iPhone.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/bkreid/pwic/L1000943.jpg.html
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Not quite a grab shot, but if I hadn't had my M8 with me ready  
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> use, I would have missed this one. 35mm Summilux ASPH, f/4 1/30
>>>>>>> ISO 640.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
>>>>> Ridgewood, New Jersey
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>> -- 
>>> Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
>>> Ridgewood, New Jersey
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> -- 
>> Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
>> Ridgewood, New Jersey
>>
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