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Two views of a 2000 piece puzzle:

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S1000322 by scott kirkpatrick, on Flickr Lumix S1R with SL - 35 SC @ 2.0

P1022664 by scott kirkpatrick, on Flickr SL with Summilux R 80@1.4

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15 hours ago, caissa said:

It does not make your photos better or worse, but I have a strange feeling, when I hear/read your description of Gropius. In the last few years it was found out, that he was not so much an architect, but a teller of stories. He used the architectural work of others (coworkers, students etc.) to show himself in a good light. And he did not really found the Bauhaus, but joined an existing group, and installed himself as chairman and since then was “the leading architect”. But he had mainly a talent for organization, not for architecture. (And for promoting his ideas of art.)

Well, it’s maybe not important, but anyway ...      

(It is as if Paul Klee had hired somebody else to paint his paintings/watercolors.  Really unthinkable. )

Even in the Wiki It is written that Gropius was not able to draw, but that he needed coworkers/ assistants during his whole career. And in school he hired an assistant to do his homework ....  How would you call that in today’s school system ?

I think you are being a bit harsh.  I have no doubt that he was an arrogant, elite fellow, his career advanced by enormous inheritances (all shortly to be inflated away to nothing).  But he took a small fine art school in Weimar, recruited the names we all know -- Klee, Kandinsky, Moholy-Nagy, Bayer..., and created an international force.  I doubt that the existing faculty at the Gross-Herzogliche Saechsische Hochschule fuer Bildinde Kunst completely shared his vision.  Klee's amazing sketching facility happened to support his imagination as well as his philosophy, resulting in a unique body of work, but architecture works differently.  So Gropius left in his career a trail of stories, affairs, philosophical debates, schools (in two countries), and some pretty nice buildings.

Edited November 1, 2019 by scott kirkpatrick

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SL with ZM Sonnar C @ 1.5 

A tree that looked like an elephant to me. 

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SL with ZM Sonnar C @ 1.5.

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vor 17 Minuten schrieb Rezinator:

SL with ZM Sonnar C @ 1.5 

A tree that looked like an elephant to me. 

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or turn it 90° counterclockw. and it is a crocodileshead in camouflage…

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1 minute ago, verwackelt said:

or turn it 90° counterclockw. and it is a crocodileshead in camouflage…

I like that too!

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Founders Gate (interior view)- Higashi Hongan-ji. Kyoto.

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Dragon Water fountain. Higashi Hongan-ji. Kyoto.

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Gaiko and Maiko walking in the streets of Gion (Kyoto).

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On 10/31/2019 at 9:45 PM, John Z. Goriup said:

Dear Rezinator,

With all respect, I recently turned 80, have a pacemaker ( made in Germany, of course ) in my chest, am otherwise in reasonably good shape and have wandered & hiked the world with my SL and all three SL Vario zooms since they were introduced...........with no discernible ill effect whatsoever. That's not bragging, nor is it one-upmanship, and I certainly don't mean to imply I'm some deranged macho masochist, it's just stating current facts of my health and condition.

Yes, it is a relatively heavy outfit, but I have proven to myself to my total and complete satisfaction that every alternative solution involves sacrificing image quality and capabilities.

I find the SL Vario lenses lenses to be the absolute equal and in many cases to be superior to any M lenses, and having the ability to zoom to adjust the image to the precise coverage I want, combined with the superb EVF / auto-focus of the SL lenses I have adopted a 'routine' that to me makes the effort of carrying & living with the extra weight of the SL and its lenses eminently worthwhile. Nota bene, I don't carry the entire outfit all the time - many a day I'll just have one (or tw) Vario lenses with me and accomplish everything I came to do..

I simply don't see the point of buying & owning a 601 SL body and then limiting yourself to not using all the features and capabilities it offers for the sake of a few ounces. Last year I stopped using my M lenses with adaptors on the SL and only use them with the M240-P when I deem that comination better suited for what I want to shoot.

JZG 

Color me envious of your constancy, because I completely agree about its extraordinary image quality, but I remain personally skeptical as I walk around my Leica store with one.

I've recounted this story a couple of times. 2 summers ago, at the Louisiana outside Copenhagen, I bumped into a guy with an SL and the 24-90. I had my Q. "Nice kit," I said to him. He looked at my camera longingly and remarked how heavy his was. He didn't seem happy at all. YMMV.

I am, however, trying to wrap my head around an SL2 with a prime.

Edited November 2, 2019 by bags27

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I traded my q for the SL, with prime lenses it is still smallish and light. I’m still considering the 24-90, but will rent one for a week first to try it out...

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1 minute ago, Rezinator said:

I traded my q for the SL, with prime lenses it is still smallish and light. I’m still considering the 24-90, but will rent one for a week first to try it out...

Now, I'm really tempted....I hope my wife isn't reading this😃

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2000 pieces -- done!

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P1022678 by scott kirkpatrick, on Flickr Lumix S1R with R Summilux 80 @1.4

S1000327 by scott kirkpatrick, on Flickr SL with SL 35 SC @2.0

Sorry about the limited material recently but I'm confined to the house for a month or so to recover from an injury.  Try shooting from a sitting position with one leg elevated sometime.

Edited November 2, 2019 by scott kirkpatrick

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9 minutes ago, scott kirkpatrick said:

2000 pieces -- done!

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P1022678 by scott kirkpatrick, on Flickr Lumix S1R with R Summilux 80 @1.4

S1000327 by scott kirkpatrick, on Flickr SL with SL 35 SC @2.0

Sorry about the limited material recently but I'm confined to the house for a month or so to recover from an injury.  Try shooting from a sitting position with one leg elevated sometime.

Doesn't sound too much fun, hope you are soon mended.  They got that done crazily quick - well done, images and puzzle, it's such an interesting one.

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4 minutes ago, Boojay said:

  They got that done crazily quick - well done, images and puzzle, it's such an interesting one.

Our daughter picked it out in Amsterdam on her way home from an end-of-the-army trip.  It was chosen to be doable -- sharp lines, crisp colors.  Still it took three people 3 days.

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SL 24/90

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2 hours ago, scott kirkpatrick said:

2000 pieces -- done!

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P1022678 by scott kirkpatrick, on Flickr Lumix S1R with R Summilux 80 @1.4

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Sorry about the limited material recently but I'm confined to the house for a month or so to recover from an injury.  Try shooting from a sitting position with one leg elevated sometime.

No picture of your toes? I had a prof in college who made the first ascent of the West Ridge of Everest, but suffered severe frostbite on the descent. Recuperating in a hospital in Kathmandu, he used his Nikon F (NGS gave one to every climber on the expedition) and his remaining stock of Kodachrome to take a time series of his toes turning black, shriveling up and falling off. These were a highlight of his annual Everest lecture, and usually sent the unprepared scrambling out of the lecture hall to hurl. Dig deep, Scott (and get better soon)!

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Toes are OK, thanks, especially when I keep them above my nose.  But a very good surgeon spent 90 minutes rummaging about in my left lower leg looking for enough bits and pieces out of which to reassemble an Achilles tendon. I've frozen ears fingers and toes lots of times, but never far enough from civilization to reach the dramatic gangrenous stage.  Don't think I'd like to, either.

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