Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] so have you been good?
From: "Bill Christensen" <williamc@speedsite.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 06:29:26 -0500
References: <200106010023.f510NS251640@riverside.haddockseyes.com>

Deepest sympathy.

Sincerely,
Bill Christensen
- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Reid" <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 7:23 PM
Subject: [Leica] so have you been good?


> My father died last weekend; his funeral was yesterday. I've been very
> distracted and have not been reading the LUG. I might choose not to go
> back and read a week's worth of LUG unless there's some
> tempest-in-a-Nikor that I need to know about.
> 
> Yes, I had my Leica in the room when he died. No, I haven't developed
> the film yet. I exposed Tri-X at 800 and I've never done push processing
> before; I'm going to do some reading before I pour any chemicals. ICUs
> are dark places.
> 
> I'm going to write a message about the actual photography in a while.
> I must confess that while I was taking pictures, I kept remembering
> Tina Manley saying that she liked to use Leicas because they can take
> pictures in the dark.
> 
> I think the LUG archive search engine is broken; it seems to be
> returning only matches from Volume 19. Damn. It takes about 30 hours of
> computer time to regenerate the index. Maybe after I recover from this
> trip I can figure out what's wrong without having to rebuild the whole
> search index.
> 

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