Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]henning: > Brad, the 12 is one of the great things to come along in a while. Just > because it's hard to do 'regular' photos with it doesn't mean that it's > not worth trying. that's the kind of drive-yourself-into-debt talk i need to hear! fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on your point of view, our bogen rep is also a voigtlander rep (thought we don't actually sell any voigtlander stuff). i can get a good employee purchase on the 12mm if i decide to get one. (FTR, leica's employee purchase program is next-to nonexistent. rich pinto was able to give me a much better deal on my M6, my 50 summicron, and my SF-20 than was our leica rep.) of course, getting *any* more lenses violates my new principle of zen photography, keep it simple. and my my principle of "i must pay off the visa bill before i get anything else." so far i'm becoming a much better photographer while restricted to the 50mm. the only reason i got the SF-20 was that i've been talked, against my better judgement, into doing candids/photojournalism at a friend's daughter's upcoming wedding, and i thought i might need some light. at mine yesterday i was constantly turning the flash on and off, doing combos of flash- and naturally-lit stuff. i'm anxious to process it all tomorrow and see how it turns out. > If you're doing your own wedding photos, for example, it's nice to have > the 12 with you to do 'arm's length' photos of yourself and the wedding > party. Just make sure you don't have the mother-in-law in one of the > far corners, or the wedding will get off to a bad start. i tried to lock my mother in law in the sacristy yesterday, but she dug out under the wall and somehow got back into the church--those cloven hooves come in handy. she, who is normally a teetotaling country methodist, got drunk as a skunk (i'm not kidding) and acted like a moron at the reception, which i found quite entertaining. and i did have a hired photographer there. i think i ended up shooting more than he did though, mainly because i was nervous, and fondling my leica made me feel better. > Also, if you need a shave and wear a fur coat, how do you tell where > one ends and the other starts, or do you care? Does the mother-in-law > care? just FYI, that's from a tex avery cartoon (i think it was tex avery) i saw last weekend. there's a bear, you see, who somehow gets mistaken for a lumber mill employee. every time he tries to explain that he's a bear and not a millworker, someone tells him he's just a silly man who needs a shave and wears a fur coat. for some reason i found it riotously funny. best, brad - -- brad daly bwdaly@bigfatpipe.net http://www.bigfatpipe.net/~bwdaly "War, what is it good for? It's good for business." --Billy Bragg - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html