Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This thread just gets better and better. Congrats, Rabs, for the birthday, the happy photo, the great looking dessert, your photo of Heather, and to the sextogenarian decade. "Two thumbs up!" Sue Ryan scoutfinch at chartermi.net "Stupidity is a force unto itself." - Latin proverb On Jan 18, 2011, at 8:59 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > We are sextogenarians. > This sounds to me like the beginning of a very good decade. > > -------------------- > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > mark at rabinergroup.com > Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb > > > > >> From: Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:28:51 -0000 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Me here yesterday 60th Birthday with one foot >> candle >> >> Belated Happy Birthday, Mark. The cake is indeed a suitable size >> for a post >> Yule diet. I hope you got to eat it all. I was 60 last Oct and >> barely got a >> few crumbs of my own cake, swept aside as I was by the ravenous >> horde that >> lives here. They said it was for my own good. I didn't get a D700 >> either. >> >> Heather looks a babe. Good photo. >> >> Douglas >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> >> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> >> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 8:35 PM >> Subject: [Leica] Me here yesterday 60th Birthday with one foot candle >> >> >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/110117_154804.jpg.html >>> >>> Yesterday I turned 60 as is old news but here is a picture taken >>> of me >>> with >>> my camera by my friend an x model Heather, the most conspicuous >>> model in >>> my >>> portfolio throughout the the 1990's. She is now a photographer in >>> Brooklyn. >>> We then jumped into a cab to Adorama and she got herself one. A >>> Leica >>> D700. >>> >>> By the way this taken not at a 60th of a second as could be >>> construed >>> but >>> a 40th if you check the metadata as I just did. Iso 64,000 and be >>> there. >>> I had the thing set to stop way down to f5.6 from f1.8 50mm. >>> Which gives you a nice sharp bright groundglass to focus with >>> manually. >>> I think she had it set to manual focus. >>> A nice Italian restaurant. I had salmon. >>> >>> Here is Heather taken by me in the early 90's >>> http://rabinergroup.com/ImagePages/Heathercoat.html >>> I think was the week Tmax 100 came out. And I shot this with it. >>> D76 1:1 >>> A year or two after this I got my first M6. >>> >>> >>> >>> -------------------- >>> Mark William Rabiner >>> Photography >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ >>> mark at rabinergroup.com >>> Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information