Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/05/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> On May 21, 2017, at 10:42 PM, Gerry Walden <gwpics at me.com> wrote: > > Firstly, a very big 'thank you' to all the LUG members who have wished me > well following my cardiac arrest. I have been deeply moved by the > friendship expressed by a group of people who, by and large, I have never > met. > > Progress has been slow, and I have been a lot weaker than I ever expected, > but I am delighted to say that I can see slow but steady progress now. One > of the biggest problems has been my inability to lie down to sleep because > of pain. However I have now had two sessions of sleep (albeit short) in a > horizontal position and last night managed around 3 and a half hours > undisturbed which was excellent. Because of my sleeping position, and my > slowness of walking , I have had severe problems with fluid retention in > the legs and feet but thankfully this now appears to be slowly abating. > > A plus-side to this has been that I have spent some time scanning images > from around the year 2000 etc., most of which were shot on my M6 using > slide film. I must say that I have been very pleasantly surprised with > many of the results with the quality of image available using various > films being quite amazing, having a certain tonality which is different to > digital. I appreciate all that digital has to offer but it would now not > worry me greatly if I had to go back to film as standard. > > I will report again but in the meantime thank you all once more for your > unconditional support. Thanks for keeping us up on your recovery. Looking forward to ever better reports Gerry. fond regards, George http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.imagist.com http://www.linkedin.com/imagist