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Subject: [Leica] Childhood Idyl
From: richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)
Date: Sun Sep 11 21:11:15 2005
References: <5.1.0.14.2.20050911022323.00bdec20@mail.2alpha.com>

Ahh.... rabbits. So cute! Great pics. Do you know the woman and her kid? I 
bet she would love to have prints.

And you have Ranch 99s up there too!

At 02:38 AM 9/11/2005, Peter Klein wrote:


>I decided to take my Zorki 4 out for a walk this weekend.  Quirky, klunky 
>camera, kind of hard to focus when the diopter lever decides to move 
>itself when it feels like it.  I struggled with it for a while, took a 
>bunch of pictures that I'm not very pleased with.
>
>But when I came upon this scene, mmmmm.  A Summicron would have been 
>objectively "better," but there's something about the quality of the 1930s 
>Sonnar design that suited the subject.
>
>http://users.2alpha.com/~pklein/temp/25RabbitsBoy4.jpg
>http://users.2alpha.com/~pklein/temp/16RabbitBoy.jpg
>http://users.2alpha.com/~pklein/temp/23BoyRabbitBlack.jpg
>http://users.2alpha.com/~pklein/temp/18RabbitMom.jpg
>
>Zorki 4, 50/2 Jupiter-8, 1/60 at about f/4.5, Fuji Reala 400.
>
>--Peter

// richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please 
use richard at imagecraft.com) 


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