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Subject: [Leica] I am alive thanks for asking
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Fri, 01 May 2015 06:58:57 -0400

You need to shot some black and white Hoppy! More people will know you're
alive! For the real important stuff!


On 5/1/15 6:49 AM, "Howard Ritter" <hlritter at bex.net> wrote:

> Well, thank goodness! About you, not the M246 file problems.

I am a B&W kind
> of guy, though as a retiree I?m not sure I could have justified the
> un-budgeted expense. Serendipitously, my son just informed me that the last
> print edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which I impulsively bought a
> set of a couple of years ago, now sells on the secondary market, like 
> Amazon
> and eBay, to collectors for 5-6 times what it cost new?just about the 
> price of
> the M246! If I could sell mine for that, it would be an un-budgeted 
> windfall
> There?s a nice symmetry there?

?howard


> On Apr 30, 2015, at 11:01 PM,
> Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Phenomenal low-light
> performance at ISO 6400?much better than the MM and
> just blows away the
> M240. As he points out, it could be a real boon for
> f/16,
> 1/2000-and-be-there daytime street photography as well as available
> dark.
>
> 
> And BTW, where?s Hoppy been recently? My LUG mail has nothing from him in>
> the last month. Did I miss something in one or another of my weeks away 
> from
>
> keyboard?
> 
> ?howard
> 
> Hi Howard, still alive and kicking here in Aus. I
> just turned off my
> LUG mail for a spell. Sort of like Facebook as a timesuck
> ;-) I take a
> peek at the LUG archives from time to time in case I missed
> some news
> from friends or whatever.
> The initial reports on that new
> Monochrom certainly sound impressive
> for BW kind of guys. I need my colour
> personally!I did read from Jono
> Slack I think that the new DNG files from
> the M246 result in major
> problems in some of the Mac applications currently.
> Photo drives me
> crazy anyway!
> 
>
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