Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/03

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Subject: [Leica] I ran out of Speed... Lust List!
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Sat Jan 3 14:44:45 2009
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I usta carry a small beanbag around with me when I was shooting interiors
like that.

http://www.sonc.com/german_tour_95/target42.html

On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Frank Filippone <red735i@earthlink.net>wrote:

> I was inside Hearst Castle.  Christmas decorations all over the main
> rooms......  Light streaming in, but the rooms are huge... and the windows
> pretty small.
>
> I used the 21 ASPH Elmarit-M.... and at F2.8,  color, ASA 400 ( film.....
> no
> M8 here), I needed 1/4 of a second.  I took the shot ( if you don't, you
> KNOW it will not come out...).  Negs await processing.
>
> But I sure would have liked to use the 21 ASPH F1.4.........    That would
> have gotten me to 1/15 of a second..... a LOT easier to hand hold......
>
> If I had been traveling with ASA800 film, I would have picked up 1
> stop......but I wasn't......  No flash allowed, ditto the monopod/tripod
> thingie......
>
> But for that once in a blue moon, I don't have an additional $5K for a
> lens......never mind the additional weight.......
> Put another one on my lust list......
>
> Frank Filippone
> red735i@earthlink.net
>
>
>
>
>
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-- 
Regards,

Sonny
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Natchitoches, Louisiana
USA

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