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Subject: [Leica] hasselblad photoz!! and a question for LONDON LUGgers
From: luisripoll at telefonica.net (Luis Ripoll)
Date: Sat Jul 14 14:15:52 2007
References: <4268A9826B9DBE4D938B902A6BC80308115403@exchange8.asc.local>

Wonderful picture, great quality!
Saludos cordiales
Luis 

-----Mensaje original-----
De: lug-bounces+luisripoll=telefonica.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+luisripoll=telefonica.net@leica-users.org] En nombre de
Kyle Cassidy
Enviado el: s?bado, 14 de julio de 2007 20:10
Para: lug@leica-users.org
Asunto: [Leica] hasselblad photoz!! and a question for LONDON LUGgers


So I'm walking through the hood on friday and I run into Omar, our best
dressed homeless person. "Hey!" he says, "take my picture!" because that's
what he always says when he sees me. "I don't have a camera," I tell him,
and he seems a little disapointed. But I remember I have the Hasselbad in my
backpack (snapping my spine) so I plop down on a chair outside the coffee
shop and try and figure out how to get film in it (not so bad). Omar is a
little dejected. "I'm happy," he says, "but I'm tired, worn out." All the
liquor stores and bars in the area have stopped serving him. He's charming
when he's sober but turns into a mean drunk. I think I've taken about nine
photos when I realize that I have one white dot and one blue dot and one
purple dot on the side of the camera, and i realize that's probably not good
-- there's no number in the frame window. Then I realize that you might need
to turn the OTHER crank on the back of the camera. so I do. the film winds,
a number shows up, I take a photo of omar:

http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2007/hassey-omar3.jpg

it cost freaking EIGHT DOLLARS so have this roll of film developed. i
"scanned" it by photographing it with my leica d200 (that's my thumb at the
top left).


QUESTION FOR LONDON LUGGERS
The wonderful archaeologist who lives upstairs from me is in Syria digging
up dead people right now. When he's done he's going to the British Museum
for a couple weeks or possibly a month doing research on his book (about
dead people who are in the British Museum it would seem) and is looking for
a place to stay -- sublet apartment, academic housing, or a room in
someone's house. He's quiet and self sufficient and knows his way around
london very well. Might be late July and August -- it depends on how many
dead people they find in Syria I guess. If you know of anything, please
email me off list. Many thanks.

You can read his exciting blog about syria here:

http://whafford.livejournal.com

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