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Subject: Re: [OM] More recent...new toy...
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 09:32:21 +0000
Congratulations, Andrew.  Most of those photos are great (Shawl ones v.g.), 
even before you get to the ones of Jaz.

Is she going to visit the UK this year?  My younger son is still single, and at 
25 probably just the right age.  Tell me she doesn't speak Strine ...

:-)

Chris

On 1 Feb 2010, at 09:25, Andrew Fildes wrote:

> At last my friend who finds things has found me a beater Leica M4.  
> (loud, squealy noises off stage).
> It left Wetzlar on December 28th, 1966 and is now dinged, scuffed and  
> worn shinychrome. A real 'user'.
> And smoooooth.
> So I rummaged and found a roll of XP-2 Super that was nealy 4 years  
> over date and not cared for and ran it through and then put it through  
> the local hopeless minilab that thinks that a small '300dpi' scan is  
> good enough. Ah well it's a test to see if I'm up to the task of  
> shooting a rangefinder at f2 (er, Rigid, chrome 50mm Summicron). It's  
> really hard work!
> The resulting scans have grain and artifacts like bloody mezzotints  
> but there's still something about them, even with a near infra-red  
> effect applied to stun the noise a bit (sorry, grain innit).
> http://www.pbase.com/afildes/m4a
> 
> (There's a few of Jaz, just to keep her fans happy).
> Andrew Fildes

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