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Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAD 16/3/2014: why I love my old Summilux
From: philippe.amard at sfr.fr (philippe.amard)
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 23:38:36 +0100
References: <2929F2C2-7459-4119-B2FE-18F2E103A6E0@frozenlight.eu> <5326001A.9000305@lighttube.net> <55DB8AB8-C71B-4FE1-9B36-F7343E2AC4ED@mac.com>

That's because the guy remains young ;-)

Nice take Nathan, as usual :-)

Amities
Philippe


Le 16 mars 14 ? 21:01, Scott Gregory a ?crit :

> Great shot Nathan,
> Makes me feel good that a 40 year old lens can still take a great  
> shot like that!
>
> Scott
>
>> On Mar 16, 2014, at 3:48 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>  
>> wrote:
>>
>> Nice image.  But, as a hearing-aid user, I immediately noticed his  
>> right ear.  Did someone stick their chewing gum in his ear?
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>
>>> On 3/16/2014 2:38 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>>> This morning I had to take my wife to our office where she was  
>>> meeting up with members of our ski club for a week of skiing in  
>>> Andorra. After dropping her off, I went for an early Sunday walk  
>>> in the centre of Alicante. Not many people out and about at 9:30  
>>> a.m. but I like a city in the morning, I took this picture of a  
>>> statue of a mayor of Alicante in the 19th century, using my 40  
>>> year old 50mm Summilux at full aperture, i.e. 1.4. I know that  
>>> there are modern lenses that are better, but look at this; the  
>>> sharpness, the bokeh...no wonder it is my favourite lens:
>>>
>>> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#! 
>>> i=3125406433&k=Mv3Tnz7&lb=1&s=O
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Nathan
>>>
>>> Nathan Wajsman
>>> Alicante, Spain
>>> http://www.frozenlight.eu
>>> http://www.greatpix.eu
>>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
>>> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
>>>
>>> YNWA
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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