Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, Another very nice architectural shot from your files. Show us more! Bob On Aug 19, 2009, at 7:03 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> >> >> I'm sure that most of us have similar stories about how that cheap >> camera in >> the bottom of the camera case saved our bacon. (Beef, if you >> happen to be >> Jewish.) >> >> >> In my case I was shooting a travel story in Kashmir in the late >> 1980's when >> my high end SLR slipped from my backpack, landed in a mud puddle, >> and became >> nonfunctional. Fortunately I had a Rollei 35SE which I used for >> the rest of >> the trip. The pictures were accepted without question by the >> editor. In face >> one even won a prize. Thank God for those little cameras. Makes >> you wonder >> if we need to haul those big monsters around. I'm going to >> consider the >> Canon G11 very seriously. It is 1/10 the proposed price of the >> Leica M9. >> Could the Leica be 10 times better? > > I've had a Rollei 35 in a pouch on my belt for many situations. > Day after day and on long road trips. > I'd often forget it was there. Get back and think "I wish I had a > camera > there was this one thing would have made a great shot. > They're not light in weight though. > Saved my S on numerous occasions. > > http://www.cameraquest.com/rol35se.htm > > > This was shot with it > http://rabinergroup.com/ImagePages/PortlandRollei35.html > And a yellow green 060 filter I had made for it from B+W. > Neopan 1600 in Xtol 1:3. > > > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information