Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]We are sextogenarians. This sounds to me like the beginning of a very good decade. -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ mark at rabinergroup.com Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb > From: Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:28:51 -0000 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Me here yesterday 60th Birthday with one foot candle > > Belated Happy Birthday, Mark. The cake is indeed a suitable size for a post > Yule diet. I hope you got to eat it all. I was 60 last Oct and barely got a > few crumbs of my own cake, swept aside as I was by the ravenous horde that > lives here. They said it was for my own good. I didn't get a D700 either. > > Heather looks a babe. Good photo. > > Douglas > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 8:35 PM > Subject: [Leica] Me here yesterday 60th Birthday with one foot candle > > >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/110117_154804.jpg.html >> >> Yesterday I turned 60 as is old news but here is a picture taken of me >> with >> my camera by my friend an x model Heather, the most conspicuous model in >> my >> portfolio throughout the the 1990's. She is now a photographer in >> Brooklyn. >> We then jumped into a cab to Adorama and she got herself one. A Leica >> D700. >> >> By the way this taken not at a 60th of a second as could be construed >> but >> a 40th if you check the metadata as I just did. Iso 64,000 and be there. >> I had the thing set to stop way down to f5.6 from f1.8 50mm. >> Which gives you a nice sharp bright groundglass to focus with manually. >> I think she had it set to manual focus. >> A nice Italian restaurant. I had salmon. >> >> Here is Heather taken by me in the early 90's >> http://rabinergroup.com/ImagePages/Heathercoat.html >> I think was the week Tmax 100 came out. And I shot this with it. D76 1:1 >> A year or two after this I got my first M6. >> >> >> >> -------------------- >> Mark William Rabiner >> Photography >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ >> mark at rabinergroup.com >> Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information