Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And I'll add my two thumbs as well. Happy 60th, young fellow! --Bob ==On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Susan Ryan <scoutfinch at chartermi.net> wrote: > 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 >>>>