[Leica] #386 & #388

[pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)]

GeeBee wrote:
> From: "Peter Dzwig" <pdzwig@summaventures.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Leica] #386 & #388
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>>GeeBee wrote:
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>>>Leica IIIf : 50mm Summitar : Kodak T400 CN
>>>http://www.geebeephoto.com/2005/05386.htm
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>>Two questions? Is this the same lone cross that you shot last year - or
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> was it
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>>earlier this - tied to the tree? or at least the same location? And
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> secondly did
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>>you crop it. Knowing the size of the crosses I would have thought that the
>>Summitar wouldn't be performing that well thatclose.
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> Hi Peter,
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> Same cross re-visited but I think it had been moved slightly. I had the 
> IIIf
> so I shot it again then took a colour shot with the 50mm Summicron with
> close up specs on.
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> Its the whole neg apart from a sliver I lost when straightening it up so it
> is either a bigger cross than you thought or you will have to upgrade your
> opinion of the Summitar :-)
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> I found this one as well which was only recently put there, I'd love to 
> know
> the stories behind these crosses.
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> OT gear
> http://www.geebeephoto.com/2005/05387.htm
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> Thanks for looking.
> 
> --Graham
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Nice photo, even with OT gear...I wondered too. Was the tree planted to 
commemorate some event, was it someones favourite corner of a field? why 
should 
a seemingly isolated corner be treated in this way?

fascinating.

Peter