[LRflex] Re: leicareflex Digest V3 #5
- From: LEICAFLEX <leicaflex@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 15:48:54 -0800
Hi Philippe!
Happy to know your parents had a 50th anniversary last year! We're
still trying to figure out how to celebrate my parents' this year.=20
Since they live halfway around the world from me, it would be a
definite 'project' to have a reunion at that time.
On another tack, wished I was as close to all the nice quaint European
towns and castles as you are. The Alsatian "gastronomie" is mighty
fine too! Regarding the castle in the photo I took, you are
completely right - it was off to the right of the highway going south
between Strasbourg and Colmar. Actually it was between Ribeaville and
Colmar, so I think it is most probably Haut-Koenigsbourg. I was
actually taking a break from photography up in Mont Saint-Odile which
you mentioned. I recall the road up to Saint Odile was close to a
town named Barr. Thanks for your nice comments about the Rolleiflex
square format shots. I managed to recollect most of the other Alsace
locations at www.travelife.com - maybe I should caption those shots
with their locale. At any rate, they include Ribeaville, Riquewihr,
Ottrott, Obernai, etc.
Here in the SF Bay Area, the closest 'European' chataeu is the Hearst
Castle built by the publications baron, art collector and movie
producer William Randolph Hearst, grandfather of Patty Hearst. Hearst
Castle is located in San Simeon, approx. halfway between SF and LA,
rather near to San Luis Obispo. It is a nice drive if one has time
and weather on your side.
Best regards, Eric
On 1/5/06, FreeLists Mailing List Manager <ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Leica Reflex Forum Digest
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> leicareflex Digest Thu, 05 Jan 2006 Volume: 03 Issue: 005
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> In This Issue:
> [LRflex] Re: Angenieux 70X3 Zoom / Scanned Medium Format =
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> [LRflex] FS: fine prints, reflex stuff
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> Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 10:17:42 +0100
> From: Philippe Amard <phamard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [LRflex] Re: Angenieux 70X3 Zoom / Scanned Medium Format vs Leic=
a
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> Hi Eric,
> thanks for sharing your experience - I think I love your "square" snaps,
> really. Maybe we have kind of the same vision of the world - your snaps
> of Alsace are very well framed indeed and you were lucky to have a nice
> weather and not so many people around as today :-) . I get there every
> other weekend or so, and always feel frustrated with the narrowness of
> the streets when it comes to shooting and finding angles - the square
> format does wonders here. By the time you took these snaps I was using a
> Mamiya C3 - Japanese copy of the Rollei (wink) but I exclusively shot in
> B&W as I had then my own lab as young people used to.
> I am giving up negative films - except for family pixes) and have gone
> back to slides (Fuji PROVIA when available) as I like to view photos on
> a large scale.
>
> I haven't received the Angenieux yet - I hope the condition will be as
> good as described and I will get the same satisfaction as with the 35X2
> I already own. The snaps are not as crip as some with Leica more recent
> glass, BUT, there's a feel in the light that can't be beaten - well from
> my point of view at least, hence my quest for the 70X3 to replace my
> Leitz 70-210.
>
> BTW my parents celebrated their 50th wedding birthday last July; I wish
> your family to share the same joy on such a wonderful event this year.
>
> Yours
> Phileica
>
> PS: the snap you called "landscape" in Alsace is either the
> "Haut-Koenigsbourg" (a mediaval castle tastelessly "restaured" by the
> German Kaiser during the period the Prussians occupied Eastern France)
> or "Mont-Saint-Odile" where there's a nice nunnery and where a
> pre-series Airbus crashed about 10 years ago. Location is between
> Strasbourg and Colmar, seen from the motorway right hand side heading
> south. If you're interested I could locate the others more precisely -
> forgot to tell you - the reflection in the canal in Petite France Stras.
> is wonderful.
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