Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/12/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]OOPS!!!! WRONG "f - stop!" I said: >3/ 35mm 1.4 NOKTON ! Another incredible lens as sharp as a razor blade. :-)<< Actually? Should have been. 3/ 35mm 1.2 NOKTON! .... I bought it as a match to work along side my NOCTIlUX on another body! No question an amzing lens to say the least! Yes, even at f. 1.2! cheers, Dr. ted :-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Geoff Hopkinson" <hopsternew at gmail.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2013 11:48 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] LUG Yearbook off to slow start NATHAN! > Have a great one yourself as well Ted! I am very sure that you will have > many glasses raised to you across the world on Christmas Day! > > > Cheers > Geoff > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > > On 23 December 2013 05:18, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: > >> Nathan OFFERED: >> >>> But I am sticking to the Leica thing, and so only pictures taken with >>> the >>>> >>> M8, or pictures taken with the Fuji X-Pro 1 and a Leica lens are >>> eligible >> for selection.<< >> >> Hi Nathan, >> Good on you lad! Thank you. >> Nice to see some semblance of LEICA order here about's! I had an M6 one >> of >> my last, I >> gave to my grandson after he graduated from photo-college two years ago. >> He shoots with it all the time for fun. Then drops his film off at a >> local >> lab for souping and contact sheets. Then comes here and makes his prints. >> >> I have an M8 and a few Leica glass elements (lenses) left. >> 1/ My Noctilux (first one sold in CANADA) way back when! They'll have to >> pry >> from my cold dead hands! Naw my hands will always be ready for warm photo >> action right to the dying moment. Only because the devil will have me >> shoveling coal? ;-) ;-) One handed! As my M8 will be in the other! ;-) >> ;-) >> >> 2/ 90mm Summicron! I very much enjoy to this day. >> >> ( a couple of non-Leica) >> >> 3/ 35mm 1.4 NOKTON ! Another incredible lens as sharp as a razor blade. >> :-) >> >> 4/ 15mm Voightlander f 4.5 An absolutely all round fun lens! :-) One >> can >> shoot >> some quite different images with a depth of sharpness from the tip of >> your >> nose to the moon and back!:-) >> >> I suppose as I dream of having an S2 and a few lenses one of these >> days after I win the $50,000,000 million Canadian lottery???? Yep still >> hoping and buying tickets! WHY? Well you just never know??????? ;-) >> >> Hey folks, one should never stop hoping for good fortune and a happy >> life! >> Yes!! Even at the times when you are at the pit bottom of Grief! :-( If >> you >> pull up your socks and look for the "LIGHT?" A "PHOTO-LIGHT" have faith >> and >> you'll find it! Always think of "The Art of Observation!" >> >> I was going to shoot a bunch of Christmas decorated homes, but it's >> raining and I'm not taking any chances of falling on my butt a few days >> before Christmas! :-) >> So instead, as it just came to mind as a subject? I think I'll shoot >> some >> images of the fire place roaring away just for fun and see what one can >> capture in the imagery of the flames! ;-) >> >> There, rain part solved! :-) Besides it'll be warm and cozy instead! See? >> Always think positive and look for the light!! :-) :-) :-) >> >> Have a good one everybody ! >> >> cheers, >> Dr. ted :-) :-) >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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