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Subject: [Leica] AUS-GER Lug Meeting in Berlin - some more shots.
From: robertmeier at usjet.net (Robert Meier)
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:09:41 -0500 (CDT)
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Very much looking forward to your film work.   What did you shoot in  
the IIIg -- Tri-X?

On Jun 27, 2009, at 11:41 AM, Douglas Sharp wrote:

> 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)
>>>
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/ 
>>> LUG_TRIP__MG_9651.jpg.html
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> The shop next door is in a sorrier state
>>>
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/ 
>>> LUG_TRIP__MG_9668.jpg.html
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/ 
>>> LUG_TRIP__MG_9667.jpg.html
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> Opposite our hotel window:
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/ 
>>> LUG_TRIP__MG_9705.jpg.html
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/ 
>>> LUG_TRIP__MG_9718.jpg.html
>>>
>>> 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
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/ 
>>> LUG_TRIP__MG_9770.jpg.html
>>>
>>> As have some from the Sony Centre - starting here
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/LUG_BERLIN/ 
>>> LUG_TRIP__MG_9778.jpg.html
>>>
>>> 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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