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Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAD 10/05/2009: beach, the M8 and road rash
From: glehrer at san.rr.com (Jerry Lehrer)
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 14:12:39 -0700
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Nathan,

If you had not braked and had hit the "sturdy" woman right in front of 
you, the results might have been faaaar worse! :-)

Jerry.


grduprey at mchsi.com wrote:
>  
> Nathan,
>
>
> Glad to hear you, (and the M8) are OK.  Are you trying to catch up with 
> Tina as the most accident prone LUG member?  Seriously, let's not do this 
> again, it can get much more painful, and we'd hate to hear of you going to 
> the hospital.  ;-)  The photo, by the way is an interesting perspective.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Gene -------------- Original message from Nathan Wajsman <photo at 
> frozenlight.eu>: --------------
>
>
>   
>> We went for a bicycle ride along the beach yesterday. As always on  
>> those occasions, the M8 was around my neck with the widest lens I own  
>> mounted on it (the 18mm Zeiss), set for f8 and hyperfocal distance. I  
>> would photograph while riding. I have done this on several earlier  
>> occasions. However, yesterday I discovered a couple of things:
>>
>> - when you brake hard with just the left hand on the handlebar, the  
>> results are not good ;-)
>> - the M8 is as sturdy as earlier M cameras (I did protect it when  
>> going down, but the baseplate hit the bicycle and the ground, albeit  
>> not that hard)
>> - road rash hurts but is curable with single malt
>>
>> http://www.greatpix.eu/gallery/4253606_netUM#533527099_VbMuz-O-LB
>>
>> When we came home, I put the 75mm on the M8, set it at f2.5 and took  
>> some close-ups of my medicine cabinet (aka the rack of single malts in  
>> our living room) to make sure the rangefinder was not knocked out of  
>> alignment. It was fine.
>>
>> Nathan
>>
>> Nathan Wajsman
>> Alicante, Spain
>> http://www.frozenlight.eu
>> http://www.greatpix.eu
>> http://www.nathanfoto.com
>>
>>     



Replies: Reply from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] Nathan's PAD 10/05/2009: beach, the M8 and road rash)
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