Really nice work, thanks for sharing ! > Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:41:45 -0700 > From: simmszee@xxxxxxxx > Subject: [LRflex] Re: Newfoundland portfolio > To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Thanks, Dave. I thought I had. I guess that when one gets to writing a few > words it's easy to forget things like links. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DAVID+SIMMS/ > > There we go... > Dave > > > > > ________________________________ > From: David Young <dsy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Thu, April 15, 2010 9:57:56 AM > Subject: [LRflex] Re: Newfoundland portfolio > > At 09:50 AM 15/04/2010, you wrote: > >Hello fellow reflexers; > >Thanks to Miha, I finally got around to uploading some photographs > >at the LUG Gallery. > >These are a bit old but hopefully not stale. They are scans of B&W > >prints of shots I had taken in rural Newfoundland when I lived there > >in 1970-71. In October, '05, many of these appeared in a photo > >essay, under my name, in the Canadian Geographic Magazine. > > > >If I recall correctly, the shots were taken, almost exclusively with > >a Leitz 50mm f3.5 Elmar mounted either on a 3F or a M2. I also had a > >35mm f2.5 Nikkor but didn't seem to use it much. Ditto for a 90mm > >Elmar f4 which was a good lens but prone to flare. I could trust the > >Elmar 50mm under any conditions. > > > >At the time I was 23-24, just a kid running around with a camera. By > >some miracle, most of the images seemed to have turned out, > >technically. i used a beat up Soligor hand-held meter and metered > >off convenient objects (like my hand) so that the values would fall > >into the correct zones. > > > >Most images were taken on Panatomic X, some on Tri-X. > > > >Dave Simms, Clearwater, BC > > > Great story behind the photos, Dave! > > Are you going to give us the link to the photos, too? ;-) > > Cheers! > ------------- > David Young - Photographer > Logan Lake, BC, Canada > > Wildlife & Sports: www.furnfeather.net > Personal pages: www.main.furnfeather.net > A micro-lender through KIVA.org. > > ------ > Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: > http://www.lrflex.furnfeather.net/ > Archives are at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/ > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > ------ > Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: > http://www.lrflex.furnfeather.net/ > Archives are at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/ ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www.lrflex.furnfeather.net/ Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/