[Leica] Soccer tournament

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i agree!
:-)


Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:16:44 -0700
From: Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com>
Subject: Re: [Leica] Soccer tournament
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Looking good :-)

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com>
wrote:
> The editor of the local newspaper called me this afternoon and asked if I
> would photograph a regional soccer tournament this weekend. This is the
> first actual sports assignment I have received in some time. I had no idea
> why he asked me until I remembered that he was a cub reporter on the paper
> when I did this sort of thing on a pro bono basis 25 years ago. I expect
to
> receive the same pay now as I did then - $0. At least inflation hasn't
> changed the rate.
>
> To refresh my memory about what a soccer ball looks like, I pulled some
> pictures of my soccer playing kids out of the wayback machine. They were
> taken in 1983 and 1984 with a Leica M3 and either the 50mm Summicron or a
> 135mm Canon telephoto.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Summer+soccer+1.jpg.html
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Summer+soccer+2.jpg.html
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Summer+soccer+3.jpg.html
>
>
> This is the way I looked in 1984. Obviously the camera is not a Leica but
an
> OM2 with a motor drive.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Larry+Z+in+1984.jpg.html
>
>
> Larry Z