Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Howard, I have seen these two gentlemen around the flamingo pond but always with some kind of Hasselblad with the longest lens I have ever seen in my life! Ray Howard Cummer wrote: > > I was walking with my wife today through the Hong Kong Botanical Gardens > and came upon two old Chinese Gentleman with a younger man assisting. They > were using Leica SLs, one with a 180 lens and the other with his camera on > a tripod - a set up with a Leitz two rail bellows and about a 400 mm lens > (something I'm sure Doug Herr or Marc Small would have recognized in a > moment) to take pictures of the flamingos clustered near the fence of their > enclosure. I said hello to the man with the SL and the 180, said that I too > used Leica and had been shooting the birds a few weeks ago with my 180f3.4 > APO. He smiled but said little. The other photographer had his eye glued to > his SL with the bellows attached and didn't want to be interrupted so we > wandered off. From my experience with my 180 the fellow with the 400 will > get the more dramatic pictures. It was a Leica moment. :) > Howard. > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html