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Subject: [OM] London OM Meeting
From: Chris Barker <imagopus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:27:13 +0000
Well, I have a cold now...

We managed to get our London meeting off the ground, on a cold rainy
day (I blame Roger, he chose the day ;-)).  We were: Roger Wesson,
Sam Shiell, Jon Mitchell (with his friend Christine) and I.  Sam took
most of the photos (it took me a little while to remember that I was
with like-minded souls and that I could stop and take photos without
worrying about the them), but I'll see if I can get my shots
processed and scanned so that you can put names to faces (if you
wish).

We met at the Embankment tube station.  Sam got there first and met a
chap who was there to meet me to have a look at my OM4Ti/40/2 combo
which I advertised for sale a while ago.  Sam was therefore confused
about this unknown OM lover until I turned up and explained (I was
late owing to my inability to read a railway timetable!).  My
"client" left soon afterwards (professing poverty, but offering me
various bodies and lenses in exchange for my camera and lens) and Jon
and Christine arrived.  Roger was a little late owing to his need for
sleep after a late night - he said.

We wandered up the south side of the Thames towards the Millenium
Bridge and the Tate Modern gallery.  At Roger's suggestion we entered
briefly to see Anish Kapoor's huge tube (or something, I did not look
to see its name) and to try out wideangle lenses.  It was at this
stage that I realised that my Ektachrome Elite 100 was rated at 400
in my OM4 (aaargh!), but I was mostly using an XA with XP2 rated at
800, anticipating as I was the grotty weather.

After photos of the Millenium Bridge, and a quick look at the outside
of the Globe Theatre (a replica of the original I believe) we all
went to warm up over lunch with some Young's Winter Warmer (Sam and I
drank that anyway) in the Founder's Arms on the Thames near the Tate
Modern.  I left after lunch as I had an appointment with a lectern in
church that afternoon, but it was a very pleasant 3 hours or so and I
should like to do it again, perhaps in the Summer.

Chris
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