Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/30

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Subject: Re: [Leica] 75 Summilux!
From: jessen@gearbox.esd.sgi.com (Jesse Newcomb)
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 15:43:16 -0800

Yes, I second the motion...
- - Jesse

On Dec 30,  6:37pm, Alfred Breull wrote:
> Subject: Re: [Leica] 75 Summilux!
> Can you, please, show it, Eric?
>
> Alf
> -------------------------------------------------
> At 23:38 29.12.1997 -0600, you wrote:
> >I got my 75 Summilux today. Took it to lunch with a bunch of women (I was
> >the token male) and while eating saw this 18 month old boy look over the
> >partition at a lady eating. Was so cute I had to shoot it (and it's running
> >in the paper tomorrow). Shot wide open with Kodak Ektapress 400. Probably
> >1.4 at 1/250 sec. When I scanned the picture in I was amazed. The tonal
> >modulation was gorgeous. The neon lights in the background glowed. The
> >colors were saturated. This is truly a Leica lens with the "glow" and
> >"character" that people talk about.
>-- End of excerpt from Alfred Breull



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