Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have been enjoying the companionship here since 1998, when I decided to see for myself what all this Leica stuff was about and bought myself an M6 and 35mm Summicron. I do not have those anymore, but now I am in my 12th year on the list. And I have met many of you in person, and in every single case the person in the flesh turned out to be much nicer than the e-mail persona. All the best to all of you and of course thanks to Brian for keeping the saloon! Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog On Jan 1, 2010, at 12:37 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > This second new millennium decade will be better than the first one was; > which was shaky and wobbly getting out of the gate.. > Full moon peaking a few hours ago around 2:13PM EST > But as it was daylight and snowing and overcast so the impact just didn't > go > over all that well. Here in NYC. > According to the LUG archive I got on the boat here 1999. > February. > Talking about using enlarging lenes in cameras. > Lots of familiar names were on then as now and I only skipped over the best > ones. > Alastair Firkin also a guy named AlastairF tended to reinforce each > other's > arguments. > Austin Franklin > Several pages worth of B.D. > Both Bernard Degaute and Bernard Delgado They were able to tell themselves > apart. > We had Bill Grimwood posting a lot before the seemingly un official > moratorium of LHSA insiders posting on the LUG. > Brian Reid made lots of posts. The island of Kirimati was just then a > volcano with a nuclear warhead in it. > Names from the past! > Buzz Hausner > Byron Rakitzis > CapsTeeth > Chandos Michael Brown > Claire (a gal!?!?!?) > Dan Cardish > We always got a post from Dan Post > Dominique PELLISSIER I remember like it was yesterday gal or no gal. > Donal Philby we had. A Mole from Zeiss no doubt. > We had a guy named Doug Herr. He used to get great shots of birds. > Also Douglas Herr. A close relative of the same genies. > Dr. Joseph Yao posted dozens of posts. Unfortunately they were all about > Efficacy of Different ?-Lactams against an Extended-Spectrum > ?-Lactamase-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Strain in the Rat > Intra-Abdominal Abscess Models. > Drodgers from sunny Portland Oregon we had. > Eric Welch posted like a son of a gun. > And Erwin Puts put his two cents in on a regular basis. Usually ending any > argument. But not always. > Frank Dernie was very much in the inside lane. As well as his brother > Frank Filippone. > The Four Fred's: > Hess, Hundertmark, Rosenberg, and Zimmerman. > And these guys didn't even know each other. > And too many Gary's to even name; > Elshaw and Todoroff were two. > We had Jem Kime and his cousin Jeremy Kime trying to outpost each other. > And they'd finish each others sentences. > Jim Brick was all over it. > Jim Shulman chipped in once or twice. > The late John Black who I knew from LHSA was very active. > John Brownlow or Johnny Deadman as a major asset till he got to Hollywood. > Now he's driving around in a white Mercedes with the Goldberg variations > coming out of the speakers. > John Collier helped out and gave us his typeface. > Wow I think he posted more than Eric Welch! > I wonder if some of the Kim's were gals? Or Moles? > Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter) was here telling us he got better shots with a > Tamron on a Pentax. > Lots of posts from a guy who just got his first camrea Kyle Cassidy > I never got a chance to ask LawsonCL if he used a Leica CL. > My typing was new then. > LEICAMAN56 posted a whole bunch. I got to know that guy as well. But if I > told you who he was they'd call in the plumbers. > Our LRZeitlin was there then in 1999. > > Yeah, they say 2000 zero zero party over, oops, out of time! > So 2night I'm gonna party like it's 1999! (Yeah, yeah) > > Marc James Small was on the forefront. > One of his posts was: [Leica] Hey, Eric! Wanna Buy A Bridge in Brooklyn? > The most recently passed Martin Howard of course posted tons of stuff. > We'll miss him. > Michael Hintlian was with us then > We were all shooting film. > Michiel Fokkema > Mike Leitheiser (RIP) from Portland OR. a friend of mine. > Nathan Wajsman was all over it. > Omegaman as on. Charlton Heston I guess. > Pascal was an influential imperative . > Patrick R. McKee otherwise known as Number two. > Paul Roark was on do you believe it! I remember that now. > Photovilla was on. Poncho's brother. > Redherring posted once: > Re: [Leica] Beating Dead horses > And we had Richard W. Hemingway who posted in earnest. > "Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. > They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them > soft > where we are hard,... > Robert Appleby I'll miss. He gave me great advise for getting on in life. > > I miss Sal DiMarco Jr. who I got to know face to face a bit. And telephone > to telephone. Real telephones not cell phones. > Sam Shoshan was on the list! wow! > > And I miss Steve LeHuray who I got to hang around with once in Baltimore. > Ted Grant was all over it! > We only got one post from " Thambar". It was a big fuzzy but had a nice > glow. > Tina Manley got lots of posts in. > TTAbrahams was involved with the lug then. > That's Tom A. from BC. > He's the person who told me about the LUG in the first place. > > The Xavier's were there. > Logean,and Planellas. > > For late bedside reading I'd recommend checking out the LUG Archive. > Next time I'll look at it by topic instead of name. > > Its been a fun ten years! Maybe twenty! Who knows? > > M. Rabiner > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >