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Subject: [Leica] PAW 41 dlridings
From: dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Sun Oct 12 21:53:16 2008
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Thanks Hoppy and Luis,

Nice to see the portraits Hoppy. It looks like you guys had a good
time chatting.

I've never thought of a 75. I'm one of those that only learned there
was anything called 75 mm framelines in a camera about 6 months ago.
:-)

Steve is going to have quite a collection of mugs.

Daniel

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 12:51 AM, Geoff Hopkinson
<hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> Well Gustav was definitely not happy!
> Hey I hope that one of the shots of Mads goes into Steve Barbour's gallery.
> Incidentally, I shot a couple of frames wide open with the hexanon 90
> recently. It seemed to be a very well made and compact lens and reminded me
> of the little Elmarit M 2.8 90. It was indoors in lower light.
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/image/101824443
> I also shot with my 75AA
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/image/101824436
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/image/101824440
> Nothing scientific about the comparison, of course.  Just passing lenses
> back and forth over beers as tends to happen. But I am very fond of that 75
> on the M8. The owner of the Hexanon shot with my 75 and film and said that
> the negs leapt off the light table for him. I'll take that as an
> endorsement.
>
> Cheers
> Geoff
> Aber Masse kann Klasse nicht ersetzen....Aber die R10 kommt.
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Daniel Ridings
> Sent: Monday, 13 October 2008 04:52
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: [Leica] PAW 41 dlridings
>
> This week is about Gustav's revenge (another cranky and bitter 
> 90-year-old),
> walking in the woods and meeting a LUGger, Mads, in Copenhagen.
>
> The Konica has been mentioned the last week and Mads had one with him.
> There are shots with his 35/2.0 and his 90/2.8 on my M2. The 90 was
> wide-open at close range in case that is interesting (thinking about
> back-focus).
>
> http://dlridings.se/blog/2008/10/12/2008-paw-41/
>
> Daniel
>
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In reply to: Message from dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] PAW 41 dlridings)
Message from hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] PAW 41 dlridings)