Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]About mad cow disease, dioxin chickens et all vs fish. Last week the European Council issued a general warning for children and pregnant women not to eat fish more than twice a week due to high mercury levels. I'm afraid the only food that still is kosjer (in a broad sense) to eat, is the food you produce yourself. And even then the soil you're using is bulking of heavy metals etc. We thought we could influence and control the food chain, and now we're starting to collect the fruits of our own vanity... --- > From: Karen Nakamura <mail@gpsy.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 21:45:10 +0900 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: Fish (WAS: [Leica] Lost Faith in Leica) (Nathan Wajsman) > >> I think we've covered the fish part of the food scale now. >> >> But how do you like your meat? And what kind of meat? >> >> Better even, how would you photograph meat, and since we're at it, food in >> general? Is it something a Leica is suited for, or is it just better to >> shoot it in middle or large format? > > I've been turned off beef in Japan. First it's extraordinarily > expensive ($10 for a very small steak that I'll cook in my own > kitchen!) because US imports were shut down because of mad cow. And > then they keep on discovering cows with mad cow here. Not reassuring. > > The Leica M is perfectly illsuited to food photography. :-( > parallax error, 0.7m as the closest distance for the 50mm, 1.0 for > the 90mm..... > > Karen > > > > > -- > Karen Nakamura > http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/ > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >