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Subject: Re: [Leica] PAW week 23 (Nathan)
From: "Steve LeHuray" <icommag@toad.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 13:01:55 -0500

All nice pictures Nathan. I like the look of the 24mm and have you always 
used a M3?

sl



> Last Saturday my children's school organized their annual International
> Festival, designed to showcase the diversity of the children attending
> there (60 countries, with the top country, the UK, representing only
> about 10% of the student body). There was some local entertainment on
> stage, so I photographed these classic Swiss activities, blowing the
> alphorn and yodling (sp). For once, I have also included two alternate
> images. The main pic was taken with the somewhat unusual combination of
> an M3 and a 24mm Elmarit, while both alternates were done with the M3
> and the Voigtländer/Cosina Nokton. The film was Delta 3200 rated at
> 1600, and I developed it in XTOL 1+1 rather than Ilford DD-X or XTOL
> stock. I found that with the diluted XTOL the negatives have lower
> contrast than what I usually get with this film, which is a good thing
> for scanning purposes and presumably also with condenser enlargers.
>
> The alphorn players at work (main pic):
>
> http://www.geocities.com/belgiangator/23.jpg
>
> and packing up afterwards (Alternate 1):
>
> http://www.geocities.com/belgiangator/23alt1.jpg
>
> and finally the Erlenbach Yodlers (Alternate 2):
>
> http://www.geocities.com/belgiangator/23alt2.jpg
>
> The full PAW index is at:
>
> http://www.geocities.com/belgiangator/pawindex.htm
>
> Comments welcome and appreciated as always.
>
> Nathan
> --
> Nathan Wajsman
> Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland
>
>

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