[Leica] speaking of material, equipment and chimping

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

George,
Its tempting me to get one of your toys.
Cheers
Jayanand


On 12/9/06, Lottermoser George <imagist3@mac.com> wrote:
>
> This morning I spent 2 hours introducing the texas leica (linhof tech
> IV with 135 3.5 xenotar) to my daughter's best friend (since high
> school '85), Alisa. She has a hankering for the "old school"
> photography. She has no darkroom and I recommend that she pickup some
> 4x5 polaroid and rent the old man's texas leica to find out if it's
> really the way she wants to go. She arrived at my office with some
> type 57 and I proceeded to demonstrate how it's done. Xenotar has
> bokeh to die for. Wide open under horrible fluorescent light.
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/imagist/alisa_pola_061208.jpg.html>
>
> Apologies for the quick and dirty scan (clean - one of the many
> things I love about digital capture). However, there's no denying
> that polaroid has it's place and provides the ultimate and first
> "chimping."
>
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> george@imagist.com
>
>
>
>
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