Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/28

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Subject: [Leica] flowers with an old old (& rare) leica
From: leicaslacker at gmail.com (kyle cassidy on the LUG)
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:20:42 -0400
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thanks bob! 

the flowers are about two feet off the ground.

"keep changing those batteries, they can't all be dead"


On Sep 28, 2010, at 1:07 PM, Robert Baron wrote:

> Wow!  How did you get down that low, or are those flowers really really 
> tall?
> 
> I sure am glad that little sucker found a great new home.
> 
> Keep pushing that shutter button, it'll eventually take a picture.
> 
> --Bob
> 
> ==On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:25 AM, kyle cassidy on the LUG
> <leicaslacker at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If you had an old old rare leica (as I do) then you could be producing 
>> flower images such as this:
>> 
>> http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2010/dinosaur-leica3.jpg
>> 
>> (At FULL RESOLUTION!)
>> 
>> The Leica Digiux is superior to nearly all other cameras because it makes 
>> you think when you photograph. You can't simply blaze away because you 
>> have about fourteen photos before you need to pause and change the card, 
>> so every shot must be the right shot. Also, the batteries last for about 
>> 16 images without using the LCD, so chimping is frowned upon and 
>> dangerous as the camera will unexpectedly announce BYE! and shut down in 
>> the middle of shooting. You need to compose through the OPTICAL view 
>> finder (no ELF garbage here, glass only baby) and, more importantly, 
>> compose in your head.
>> 
>> It slows you down, It makes you think. It's quiet. You zoom with your 
>> feet. The Digilux, Digilux Zoom and the Digilux 4.3 are the only real 
>> digital cameras true Leica users prefer. The M-9 with it's 
>> auto-everything is like a television compared to the works of Shakespeare 
>> in a fine folio edition.
>> 
>> (& now, thanks to Clayton McKee i have now cornered the market on Smart 
>> Media cards. If I can just get this thing connected to a car battery, I 
>> can shoot all afternoon.)
>> 
>> 
>> kc
>> 
>> p.s. does anybody know how many digilux's and digilux 4.3's were made? 
>> each of them had a production run of less than six months, so i'm 
>> thinking there can't be that many of them. which, you know, makes them 
>> rare. like shark attacks.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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In reply to: Message from leicaslacker at gmail.com (kyle cassidy on the LUG) ([Leica] flowers with an old old (& rare) leica)
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