Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/02

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Subject: Roll call -again
From: Pascal <cyberdog@ibm.net>
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 1997 16:16:55 +0100

Oops, a line was dropped in my "roll call" message. Here is the complete
version. Sorry for any inconvenience :-)

Hello to all. Here it goes:

Personals:

- - Age 32, married with no children.
- - education: law school and masters degree in international politics.
- - professionally active as a diplomat with the Belgian Foreign Service,
presently
at NATO headquarters in Brussels.
- - photography is pure hobby for me (as a necessary counterbalance for my
professional life), just the way computering is - of course on Macintosh :-)
(I have been a happy Apple user from the very first hour, back from the
venerable //c up to the modern PowerBook lines)
- - camera equipment goes along on most professional trips abroad (size of
equipment determined by the size and weight of the other bagage...).

Present camera equipment:

- - Leica R8 with the following lenses: Elmarit-R 28mm f/2.8 ROM, Summicron-R
50mm f/2.0 ROM, Macro-Elmarit-R 60mm f/2.8 ROM and Summilux-R 80mm f/1.4
ROM. Motor-winder or motor-drive in the hopefully not too distant future
:-).
- - Leica M6 titanium with Summilux-M 35mm f/1.4 ASPH titanium.
- - Nikon 35 Ti (compact).
- - Nikon FM with the following lenses: Nikkor 50mm f/1.8, Micro-Nikkor 55mm
f/2.8, Zoom-Nikkor 28-50mm f/3.5 and Zoom-Nikon E 70-210 f/4.0. Motordrive
MD-12.
- - other stuff like Leica angle finder-R, Leica table tripod with ball socket
- - Leica P150 projector with Colorplan-P2 90mm f/2.5 CF lens.

Sold camera equipment:

- - Nikon FA
- - Nikon AF3 (compact with 35mm f/2.8 lens).
The other Nikon equipment is on its way out, and maybe also the M6. Only
need time to find a buyer.

Preferred films:

- - for slides: Fuji Velvia 50 ASA, Fuji Provia 100 ASA, Fuji Sensia 100 ASA
(don't like Kodak Ektachrome or Kodachrome).
- - for color negatives: Fuji Reala 100 ASA (when you need more vivid colors:
Fuji Super-G Plus 100 ASA). Had recently nice experience with Agfa Optima
100 (splendid neutral colors).
- - for black and white (very seldom): Ilford Delta 100 Professional.

Have been taken pictures over the last 15 years or so, always on Nikon
reflex. Switched to Leica this year and don't regret it. However, I feel
much more comfortable with the R8 than with the M6. The R8 just "feels" as
the perfect camera for me.

Cheerio,

Pascal
Belgium

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