Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/08/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The Leica SL is the one I've been using lately. Almost all of the Iran photos were made with the SL. High ISOs are wonderful with a film-like grain instead of noise. It's the best digital camera Leica has made. I only have one SL lens - the 24 to 90, but it does take all Leica M and R lenses with adapters. I don't regret buying it!! Tina Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 18, 2016, at 5:33 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: > > A friend sent me a sort of flyer on a new SLR LEICA "LEICA SL" model. > > ISO RATE? 50 to 50,000 > Like with that kind of sensitivity???? "WHO NEEDS LIGHT?" A quick look > through advertisment and it truly appears as a "magical machine? It's > also? Mirrorless? > Seems like lots of other cool bits, buttons & thing-mee-bobs! > Maybe some of you have heard of it or quite possibly played with one? > Another interesting bit? With an adapter you can use "M-lenses"??????? Oh > and there were all kinds of new stuff? > HOWEVER I DID NOT SEE A PRICE???????? :-( Oh well can't afford one anyway! > :-( > cheers, > Dr. Ted > > -----Original Message----- > From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On > Behalf Of Nathan Wajsman > Sent: August-15-16 9:32 PM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] Louisiana > > ++++1 > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> > http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> > Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator > <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> > YNWA > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> On 16 Aug 2016, at 04:05, George Lottermoser <george.imagist at >> icloud.com> wrote: >> >> Good to hear you and yours are still fine. >> Thank you for sharing that powerful, first hand narrative. >> >> a note off the iPad, George >> >> On Aug 15, 2016, at 6:06 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> We're fine, so far, no flooding in our area. Some in Adam's neck of the >>> swamp, Iowa, La. near Lake Charles, but his subdivision is built on an >>> old >>> rice field, and though the soil holds water, it also drains well. >>> >>> Eric is fine in New Orleans, he's had to work from home some as the >>> streets >>> have some flooding, but his house is pretty high, and his apt. is on the >>> second floor. >>> >>> Kathy works for Public Health, and she's likely to go staff shelters >>> soon. >>> >>> I won't mince words, this is a serious disaster. >>> >>> So far more than 20,000 people are evacuated from their homes. The worst >>> is around Baton Rouge, and in the Lafayette area. >>> >>> More rain today. >>> >>> Thank you for your concern. >>> >>> >>> *The following is not my writing!* >>> >>> *from Louisiana Voice, a blog I follow:* >>> >>> Following a leisurely breakfast Saturday morning, we looked out the front >>> door to see water from the Amite River (a mile from my house) coming >>> across >>> the street. >>> >>> That was all the warning we got after feeling confident the night before >>> that we were in no peril. We scrambled to throw some clothing into >>> garbage >>> bags, gathered our medications and put our dogs on leashes as the water >>> poured into the home where we had been living the past 22 years. >>> >>> Shortly after, a flotilla from the West Baton Rouge Sheriff?s Department >>> (that?s West Baton Rouge, as in across two rivers?the Amite and the >>> Mississippi?and two parishes to the west of us) arrived as we struggled >>> to >>> raise heavy furniture. The deputy who came to our door told us it was >>> useless because the water was going to go much higher than where we were >>> trying to raise it. He helped be complete the task anyway?something he >>> didn?t have to do, but did anyway out of compassion for our plight which >>> was growing more desperate by the minute. >>> >>> He helped carry our bags of clothing and our small dog and I bodily >>> carried >>> our Chow-Golden Retriever mix through the filthy, swirling water that was >>> by now deeper than the tops of my white shrimp boots (a required part of >>> the uniform if you live in South Louisiana). Needless to say the weight >>> of >>> two boots filled with brown river water made jumping onto tho flotilla >>> impossible so a pair of deputies bodily lifted me aboard even as an >>> untimely cramp in my right calf prohibited me from being of much help to >>> my >>> own rescue. >>> >>> Once aboard, another smaller boat pulled alongside carrying a family >>> with a >>> special needs teenage boy. His wheelchair was lifted onto the flotilla >>> and >>> his father, who lived behind our home on an adjacent street, lifted his >>> helpless, diapered atrophied son and placed him gingerly onto his >>> wheelchair. It was as I watched that boy, unable to even raise his head >>> that I came to the realization that even though I was losing my home, >>> both >>> vehicles, my record collection, my books and my computer, our losses were >>> insignificant. >>> >>> >>>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 5:36 PM, Jim Hemenway <jim at hemenway.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Has anyone heard from Sonny Carter? >>>> >>>> Is he on high ground down there in Louisiana/ >>>> >>>> Jim >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Regards, >>> >>> Sonny >>> http://sonc.com/look/ >>> Natchitoches, Louisiana >>> 1714 >>> Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase >>> >>> USA >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information