Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/12/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hope the doc went well for Tom. Anyway, if you do go there, be careful what you are served as drink on that train - 58 dead in Siberia from drinking contaminated bath lotion. Things are so bad under Putin that they'll drink anything.... Best of luck. Douglas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tina Manley" <tmanley at gmail.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2016 9:49 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] IMGS: Summilux SL > Well, we are going first class all the way - using points. From the time > we get to Beijing until we end up in St. Petersburg, we will be escorted > from place to place with all reservations already made and confirmed. All > meals are included. A lot of the time will be spent sitting or sleeping on > the train. We will be traveling with two roll-on suitcases - one for > clothes and one for cameras. > > If we canceled the trip at this point (which may still happen), I know he > would feel worse about just sitting around listening to his heart beat. > > We have appointments with the heart doctor and the lung doctor tomorrow > and > we will know more tomorrow afternoon. > > I'm in the kitchen, too, making lebkuchen - a Christmas tradition for us. > > Thanks! > > Tina > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > >> Tina, Tina, Tina, >> Good picture, but.... >> >> ... poor Tom, he's facing the prospect of being dragged off from home's >> wonderfully warm comforts to Solzhenitsynland in Putin's Parlour during >> January through freezing temperatures and numbing distances at a good >> deal >> below his fighting weight just to have his distaff side wave a Leica in >> the >> faces of the local populace for a complainably minuscule monetary return. >> >> Ye gods and little fishes, you should consider rebooking for a week's >> feeding him up at the nearest Michelin starred restaurant in lieu, or >> else, >> maybe come to Ireland where he can be fed properly :-) >> He deserves that - the poor chap! >> >> Douglas >> Member of the United Malehood Union feebly slaving away in the kitchen >> making brandy butter >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tina Manley" <tmanley at gmail.com> >> To: <MUGers at yahoogroups.com>; "Leica Users Group" <lug at >> leica-users.org>; >> "paw" <paw at micapeak.com>; "seephoto" <seephoto at micapeak.com>; >> "Olympus >> Camera Discussion" <olympus at thomasclausen.net> >> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2016 8:18 PM >> Subject: [Leica] IMGS: Summilux SL >> >> >> PESO: >>> >>> Just took my lens out of the box and testing on my only two models >>> available: >>> >>> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/164719737 >>> >>> and next 3. The one of Jasmine shows how shallow the depth of field is >>> at >>> 1.4! >>> >>> It's big, heavy, quiet, fast, smooth. I'm looking forward to testing it >>> over the holidays! >>> >>> Tina >>> >>> -- >>> Tina Manley >>> www.tinamanley.com >>> tina-manley.artistwebsites.com >>> http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A- >>> A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> > > > > -- > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > tina-manley.artistwebsites.com > http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >