Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/31

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Subject: Re: [Leica] um is anybody taking PICTURES out there?
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:50:25 -0500
References: <200010312116.QAA01084@unix3.netaxs.com>

Love that Bacha!

Kyle Cassidy wrote:

> i was riding my morgan +8 goosedown frame bike to the montblanc store at
> the mall yesterday to get a highlighter (the camera shop in the mall sells
> the leica digilux, which makes this post on topic) and doing a couple
> calculations on my 7.5 inch Huges-Owens 341/3050 Versalog Sliderule along
> the way to figure out which lenscap i'd need if i owned any lenses,
> pausing momentarily to mentally curse out those @#$-@%^ards who shoot
> digital and call themselves photographers. a quick glance at my omega
> seamaster sport chrono confirmed that it was about 4:30, plus or minus a
> couple of seconds one way or the other. i  was overcome with the urge to
> let everybody on the list know that i was thinking that, so i rode home
> doublequick to post this. oh yeah, and i wanted to say that i'm pretty
> sure susan sontag doesn't know what she's talking about but i'm not sure
> what she said. or who she is really, but i think she's the editor of ms.
> magazine who went to hanoi in 1971.
>
> feel free to just add "me too" to the bottom of this and copy it back to
> the list.
>
> kc
>
> can you hear this? i'm sighing very heavily here in philadelphia.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> p.s. here's a brand new shot with a borrowed plug voightlander 35 1.7,
> http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/pix/pad/44/carfaxgary.jpg
> a little heavy, but very useful focal length and speed.

In reply to: Message from Kyle Cassidy <cassidy@netaxs.com> ([Leica] um is anybody taking PICTURES out there?)