Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/20

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]

Subject: [Leica] Distressed in Boston
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Fri Jan 20 07:05:25 2006

Hey, Distressed - who it was a surprise and pleasure to run into at the show
-
Aside from that godawful digital effect :-), what did you think of the film?

B. D.


On 1/19/06 10:31 PM, "bill harting" <vintagebill@verizon.net> wrote:

> So I met an old friend at the MFA tonight to join him in a viewing of Henri
> Cartier-Bresson, the movie. Of course I brought my Leica along, hoping that
> proximity to the film would inspire my camera. But the film was really
> digitized video, so I'm not sure what kind of results I'll get.
> 
> Anyway, the old friend is also an long-time Leica user; he has a nice black
> M2 and a modest array of lenses. I thought he might bring it, but instead,
> he brought his new digital camera.
> 
> My question is, he brought along a gift for me, a roll of Ilford Delta 400,
> which he recommended highly. I had no such gift for him. I would have
> offered him one of my self-rolled TriX cassettes, but there was obviously 
> no
> point to that. What, then, could I offer a digital user as a similar
> hospitality gift?
> A package of AAA batteries?
> 
> Signed
> 
> Distressed in Boston
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Leica Users Group.
> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information



Replies: Reply from vintagebill at verizon.net (bill harting) ([Leica] Not distressed in Boston)
In reply to: Message from vintagebill at verizon.net (bill harting) ([Leica] Distressed in Boston)