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Subject: [Leica] AUS-GER Lug Meeting in Berlin - some more shots.
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:40:48 +0200
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Hello Bob,

True - I just haven't found the time to have the stuff I shot with an 
M6, a IIIg a Minolta CLE and a Rollei 3003 developed yet. 

Quite a few of the Canon 20D shots were actually taken with Carl Zeiss 
(1.4/85 mm for portraits and low light) and Leica lenses (Super-Angulon 
21mm and a 2.0/35mm) and the very wide angle ones were with a Tokina 
Zoom (a superb quality 12-24 mm zoom at a very reasonable price).

Although I love Leica equipment, and have a modest collection of their 
wares, I now tend to use what provides the greatest pleasure, 
functionality  and the best results for what I'm shooting.  Other brands 
also make (made) excellent lenses, so I'm not limited to Leica on this 
count - then, of course, the advantage of digital is that I can see 
everything immediately after shooting.

But getting back to film, I'm currently very much enjoying the 
experience of using a Rollei 3003 and CZ lenses again after many years 
of bewailing the demise of the SL2000F I used to own. One back filled 
with Kodak T-max, one with ASA 50 slide material and another with ASA 
200.  I'll be posting some scans as soon as I get the films developed.

Cheers and thanks for taking a look
Douglas

Robert Meier wrote:
> Douglas,
>
> I've been enjoying your pictures of Berlin very much.   I have turned 
> on a recording of Die Drei Groschen Oper to go along with your 
> pictures and it has been very enjoyable.   I've wondered, though, 
> about those pictures of the table full of three Leicas but all the 
> pictures say they were taken with a Canon digital!
>
> Bob
>
> On Jun 27, 2009, at 9:44 AM, Douglas Sharp wrote:
>
>> A few from our coffee stop in Tangermuende on the River Elbe - Lovely 
>> little town, still very much in the throes of being brought back into 
>> the western world.
>>
>> The church is colossal, this is shot from the courtyard of the 
>> Schloss (castle)
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>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_TRIP__MG_9651.jpg.html
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>> A little to the right of the church is an old tower used as a nesting 
>> place by storks - unfortunately I don't take longer glass when 
>> planning city tours, so the stork is only just recognisable as such.
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_TRIP__MG_9661.jpg.html
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>> At least one company is not suffering from the financial crisis:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_TRIP__MG_9652.jpg.html
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>> A view of the Schloss (now a high-class hotel, but still reasonably 
>> priced) from where we sat drinking coffee.
>>
>> Very impressive, Frauke and I think it might be a good place for a 
>> weekend break.
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_TRIP__MG_9646.jpg.html
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>> 1799, a shipowner's house in Tangermuende - it has a preservation 
>> order on it, but work hasn't started yet.
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_TRIP__MG_9666.jpg.html
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>> The shop next door is in a sorrier state
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_TRIP__MG_9668.jpg.html
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>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_TRIP__MG_9667.jpg.html
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>> This street is waiting to be spruced up, the other end of the town is 
>> already refurbished and renovated, but we didn't have time for it on 
>> this trip.
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_TRIP__MG_9669.jpg.html
>>  
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>>
>> Arrival in Berlin - Adenauer Platz/Ku-damm against the setting sun
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_TRIP__MG_9670.jpg.html
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>> A pavement Currywurst restaurant outside our hotel - a big argument 
>> about who invented Currywurst still rages in Germany - was it in 
>> Hamburg or was it in Berlin - nobody really knows. The best one I 
>> ever ate was in Goslar in the Harz mountains at a restaurant run by 
>> Italians :-)
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_TRIP__MG_9672.jpg.html
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>> Opposite our hotel window:
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_TRIP__MG_9705.jpg.html
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>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_TRIP__MG_9718.jpg.html
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>> The next shots were all posted earlier when we met Geoff and his dear 
>> wife Bron.
>>
>> These two have been added:
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_TRIP__MG_9764.jpg.html
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>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_TRIP__MG_9770.jpg.html
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>> As have some from the Sony Centre - starting here
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/LUG_TRIP__MG_9778.jpg.html
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>>
>> Quite a lot for one post - hope you enjoy them as much as we enjoyed 
>> being there - despite the poor weather we had most of the time
>>
>> Cheers
>> Douglas
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