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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Portrait of a shameless moocher
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Thu Jul 31 11:56:39 2008

Super-Multi-Coated TAKUMAR!



mark@rabinergroup.com
Mark William Rabiner



> From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols@bellsouth.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:46:12 -0500
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG:  Portrait of a shameless moocher
> 
> Thanks.  I try.
> 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark@rabinergroup.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 1:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Portrait of a shameless moocher
> 
> 
>> Nice super Takamar multi coated Bokeh!!!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> mark@rabinergroup.com
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols@bellsouth.net>
>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>>> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:02:24 -0500
>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG:  Portrait of a shameless moocher
>>> 
>>> Mark,
>>> 
>>> Here is one of the little fellows that I was able to photograph in 1991,
>>> somewhere above Estes Park.
>>> 
>>> Probably with a Pentax Spotmatic.
>>> 
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Cigar+Box/The+Moocher+1991.jpg.html
>>> 
>>> Jim Nichols
>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark@rabinergroup.com>
>>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
>>> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 12:50 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Portrait of a shameless moocher
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> They were one of my favorite things about the Rocky Mountain National
>>>> Park.
>>>> Darned hard to photograph them with a rangefinder camera though. With a
>>>> normal or tele lens.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> mark@rabinergroup.com
>>>> Mark William Rabiner
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols@bellsouth.net>
>>>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>>>>> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:32:53 -0500
>>>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG:  Portrait of a shameless moocher
>>>>> 
>>>>> Peter,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Very good images of the moocher.  We had a similar experience with them
>>>>> in
>>>>> Rocky Mountain National Park years ago.  I have one living under an
>>>>> outbuilding in my back yard, but rarely get a glimpse of him.  I guess
>>>>> they
>>>>> get conditioned to strangers in the parks.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Jim Nichols
>>>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Peter Klein" <pklein@threshinc.com>
>>>>> To: <lug@leica-users.org>; <leica@freelists.org>
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 1:13 AM
>>>>> Subject: [Leica] IMG: Portrait of a shameless moocher
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> We were sitting on a mountain rock slide at 8200 feet (2500 m).  Look
>>>>>> who
>>>>>> decided to join us for lunch.  I had a 28/3.5 on the M8, but
>>>>>> fortunately
>>>>>> it crops down well.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Here's the context:
>>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/joseph08/edits/L1003778SquirBoot-
>>>>>> w.
>>>>>> jp
>>>>>> g.html
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> And here's the same shot cropped tighter, without the boot.
>>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/joseph08/edits/L1003778TightCrop.
>>>>>> jp
>>>>>> g.
>>>>>> html
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> A couple of minutes later, I had the 90/3.5 VC on the camera, and
>>>>>> managed
>>>>>> to fill the frame with one of his cohorts.
>>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/joseph08/edits/L1003789GndSquirCr
>>>>>> op
>>>>>> -w
>>>>>> .jpg.html
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> These little guys are FAST, but their desire to "have what you're
>>>>>> having"
>>>>>> gives the photographer a fighting chance.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> --Peter
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
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