Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/02

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Subject: [Leica] Old Leica glass (was Canal du Midi)
From: corkflor at iol.ie (Alex Hurst)
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 19:33:59 +0100
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Lluis wrote:

>I see you love also the old lenses, I have also 
>someones, and Malcolm Taylor has re-coated a 
>Summitar and CLA some others. I love the 
>Summarex, a great lens, beautiful pictures! The 
>rendtion of the Elmar 5cm is very good also, but 
>I use mainly this one for B&W.

The great thing is that I can still use all these 
wonderful old soldiers on the M8 with the 
appropriate Leitz adapters.

What we shall do when Malcolm finally retires, I do not know.....

>
>It's a shame we have not meet in your visit in 
>2005, I liked very much your pictures of 
>Barcelona

Well, we can certainly rectify that on our next trip over....

Best of light.

Alex

>
>El 01/10/2011, a las 11:57, Alex Hurst escribi?:
>
>>Lluis wrote:
>>
>>>Very nice, a really wonderful tour and beautiful pictures
>>
>>Thanks for the bouquet Lluis.
>>
>>The last occasion my wife and I visited your 
>>fascinating city was in the wintertime. Great 
>>low light! I used the early 35/1.4 'lux there 
>>too, and also a newly recoated and overhauled 
>>50/1.5 Summarit (thank you Malcolm Taylor).
>>
>>The sequence starts here:
>>
>>http://www.iol.ie/~corkflor/barcelona1.html
>>
>>The Summarit also featured in shots from the 
>>first LHSA annual meet at Wetzlar, where I used 
>>a lot of other old glass. See:
>>
>>http://www.iol.ie/~corkflor/wetzlarintro.html
>>
>>Best of light.
>>
>>Alex
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>El 30/09/2011, a las 14:36, Alex Hurst escribi?:
>>>
>>>>Hi all - sent this earlier, but it never 
>>>>turned up in my inbox. Sorry if I've repeated 
>>>>myself:
>>>>
>>>>Hi all from Ireland, where it's pouring, 
>>>>despite England having a heatwave next door.
>>>>
>>>>We're just back from a month touring France, 
>>>>where we took in a week's cruise on one of 
>>>>the miracles of French 17th century 
>>>>engineering, the Canal du Midi. This was the 
>>>>brainchild of of a wealthy salt tax 
>>>>collector, Riquet. He poured his entire 
>>>>fortune into it, and died broke six months 
>>>>before the project was completed.
>>>>
>>>>Point your browsers at:
>>>>
>>>>http://corkflor.smugmug.com
>>>>
>>>>to see what we got up to.
>>>>
>>>>Shots taken mostly with an M8 and my 
>>>>favourite pre-ASPH 35/1.4 Summilux, and with 
>>>>a Nikon D200.
>>>>
>>>>C&C welcome as always.
>>>>
>>>>Alex
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>Alex & Carmel Hurst
>>>>Waterfall
>>>>Near Cork
>>>>Ireland
>>>>
>>>>Tel: +353 21 454 3328
>>>>Mobile: +353 87 245 7048 (A)
>>>>+353 87 988 9927 (C)
>>>>
>>>>email: corkflor at iol.ie (for either of us)
>>>>email while travelling: <corkflor at gmail.com>
>>>>Carmel McCarthy <carmelmac at mynovanetworks.net> (for Carmel personally)
>>>>UK email (when there) corkflor1 at o2.co.uk
>>>>Home Pages: http://www.iol.ie/~corkflor
>>>>Photo Gallery at: http://corkflor.smugmug.com
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>--
>>Alex & Carmel Hurst
>>Waterfall
>>Near Cork
>>Ireland
>>
>>Tel: +353 21 454 3328
>>Mobile: +353 87 245 7048 (A)
>>+353 87 988 9927 (C)
>>
>>email: corkflor at iol.ie (for either of us)
>>email while travelling: <corkflor at gmail.com>
>>Carmel McCarthy <carmelmac at mynovanetworks.net> (for Carmel personally)
>>UK email (when there) corkflor1 at o2.co.uk
>>Home Pages: http://www.iol.ie/~corkflor
>>Photo Gallery at: http://corkflor.smugmug.com
>>
>>_______________________________________________
>>Leica Users Group.
>>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>Leica Users Group.
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-- 
Alex & Carmel Hurst
Waterfall
Near Cork
Ireland

Tel: +353 21 454 3328
Mobile: +353 87 245 7048 (A)
+353 87 988 9927 (C)

email: corkflor at iol.ie (for either of us)
email while travelling: <corkflor at gmail.com>
Carmel McCarthy <carmelmac at mynovanetworks.net> (for Carmel personally)
UK email (when there) corkflor1 at o2.co.uk
Home Pages: http://www.iol.ie/~corkflor
Photo Gallery at: http://corkflor.smugmug.com


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