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Subject: [Leica] IMG: New gallery - streets of Berlin at the weekend in B&W
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 10:15:45 -0500
References: <4CB4C740.5020901@gmx.de>

Always a treat to see these distant places
through various eyes.

You present a very different view
than say Nathan's recent visit there.

Fine b&w tonalities

Regards,
George Lottermoser 
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist





On Oct 12, 2010, at 3:38 PM, Douglas Sharp wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> we were in Berlin over the weekend on a business trip (finding a new 
> publisher and meeting a film producer working on Frauke's book).
> 
> Here are a few shots taken while travelling/walking to the various places 
> we had to go to. Everything from a stretch Trabbi and the President's 
> Palace to a "guerilla busker" on the train.
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Berlin/October_2010/
> 
> Some focusing and DoF problems - my Tokina 12-24 zoom suddenly decided it 
> only wanted to shoot wide open at f4, a couple were also shot with Leica 
> lenses - 21/4 and 35/2
> 
> 
> Spent most of our time in what used to be East Berlin - it always did have 
> all the interesting bits and lunch is cheaper.
> 
> The fleamarket turned out to be rather good - another Canon A1 in mint 
> condition with a 50/1.4 a 70-210 /4.0, a 28/2.8, a winder, case, Adapter P 
> and bits and pieces and all the papers for 150 euros was too good a deal 
> to miss.
> 
> The only other stuff there on Saturday was piles of Zorki, Fed, Kiev and 
> similar Russian stuff and 1960's amateur cameras from Zeiss (east and 
> west), like Voigtl?nder, Adox & co.
> 
> 
> Hope you enjoy a little wander around some of the lesser known bits of 
> Berlin. I suppose it could be street photography - it's a bunch of 
> snapshots taken while out on the street.
> 
> Comments and criticism, as ever, more than welcome
> 
> Cheers
> Douglas
> 
> 
> 
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