Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/03/19

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: What went wrong?
From: george.imagist at icloud.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 17:10:46 -0500
References: <674772F8-02D6-4C38-BFA9-7F56D665E0BF@acm.org>

On Mar 19, 2014, at 3:41 PM, Herbert Kanner wrote:

> I?m still surprised when I can get a picture in light this low. It is a 
> shot of Tim Robinson, the genius, both mechanical and mathematical, who is 
> head of the group demonstrating the Babbage Difference Engine at the 
> Computer History Museum. Without him, I don?t think we could have been 
> demonstrating this machine five days a week since 2008. 
> 
> The machine jammed last week in an unusual way, and Tim, aided by his 
> wife, Lisa, are poring through the log book, collecting historical data on 
> similar jams.
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/P1010496.jpg.html

cool story.

(looks like a classic case of auto focus focusing on the center, typography, 
between the two subjects)

Regards,
George Lottermoser 
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist



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