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Subject: RE: [Leica] Get out the Leicas - Leonids tonight
From: "bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 16:43:37 -0500

Don't you love that, Nathan? (The people taking flash photos of Halley's
comet). It's almost as hopelessly dumb as the people at stadium rock
concerts snapping away with their point and shoots with flash...Boy,
would I like a flash I could control with, say, 150 yard range...:-)

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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Nathan
Wajsman
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 4:34 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Get out the Leicas - Leonids tonight


Hi Jim,

Firstly, it is going to be 5 a.m. where I live and I do not like to be 
up at 5 a.m. unless I have been partying all night.

Secondly, the sky is covered with thick clouds spewing rain, and I see 
no signs that it will change during the night.

Thirdly, I doubt that one will be able to get any meaningful photographs

of the meteors with a Leica M, although it might be fun to take flash 
pictures of the other photographers (be prepared to be yelled at) and 
also to smugly look at the people with point-and-shoots using flash to 
photograph objects millions of miles away (I saw many people doing that 
during the Halley's Comet pass in 1986).

Goodnight...

Nathan

Jim Hemenway wrote:
> http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/11/18/leonids.meteors/index.html
> 
> Best viewing times are forecasted for 11 PM (4 AM GMT) tonight and 
> 5:30 tomorrow morning (best on East coast)
> 
> Be there or be square!
> 
> Jim - http://www.hemenway.com
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