[LRflex] Re: Newfoundland portfolio

  • From: Gary Pinkerton <gpinkcp@xxxxxxx>
  • To: leicareflex <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:18:17 -0500

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
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