Re: Nathan's PAD 10/05/2009: beach, the M8 and road rash
- From: Bob Adler <rgacpa@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: leica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 08:17:57 -0700 (PDT)
Glad you are OK Nathan. Take it from a southpaw, it's not easy living in a
right handed world. :-)
The woman in front of you with the golden seems to be giving you quite the wary
eye!
Heal quickly,
Bob
Bob Adler
Palo Alto, CA
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From: Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 9:53:27 PM
Subject: Nathan's PAD 10/05/2009: beach, the M8 and road rash
We went for a bicycle ride along the beach yesterday. As always on those
occasions, the M8 was around my neck with the widest lens I own mounted on it
(the 18mm Zeiss), set for f8 and hyperfocal distance. I would photograph while
riding. I have done this on several earlier occasions. However, yesterday I
discovered a couple of things:
- when you brake hard with just the left hand on the handlebar, the results are
not good ;-)
- the M8 is as sturdy as earlier M cameras (I did protect it when going down,
but the baseplate hit the bicycle and the ground, albeit not that hard)
- road rash hurts but is curable with single malt
http://www.greatpix.eu/gallery/4253606_netUM#533527099_VbMuz-O-LB
When we came home, I put the 75mm on the M8, set it at f2.5 and took some
close-ups of my medicine cabinet (aka the rack of single malts in our living
room) to make sure the rangefinder was not knocked out of alignment. It was
fine.
Nathan
Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
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