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: "M.E.Berube" <MEB@goodphotos.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:59:08 -0500

I may respond but it depends...did you write this post on a MAC or a Wintel 
machine (Or are you one of those peng-u-in fanatics?)
oh what the Hel..."me too Kyle."
Michael
- -busily photographing my little 3yo bumble bee and 2 yo butterfly as they 
get ready to go trick-or-treating.

At 04:16 PM 10/31/00 -0500, 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.
>
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>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.