 Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2017 7:56 pm Post subject: |
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dan_ wrote:
This pancake lens is on my short list. It looks like a very sharp lens to me and the 45mm FL fills the gap between my 35 and 55 lenses. Could you please tell me more about the lens sharpness? The photos are not large enough to draw a clear conclusion.
The photo of Jim's tomb have woken up my memories of the day I visited it.
It was a hot summer Thursday afternoon when I decided to visit Jim. There was almost nobody in Père Lachaise and it took me more than 1/2 hour to find the grave, in spite of having the graveyard map. The tomb was small and lost among others, away from the main alleys. When I finally found it there was nobody in the nearby. I lighted a candel, put a flower on the grave and sit for a while to smoke a cigarette. It was just like visiting the tomb of an old friend. After all his music and poetry shaped my youth - he really is an old friend. I had some of his songs recorded on my phone and let it play one - it was "A feast for friends" or "The End", I don't remember well. Till the song ended, from nowhere appeared, one by one, 8 persons of different ages and ethnicities to his tomb, with candles and flowers. I felt as if I had witnessed a miracle. In that very hot sunny mid-week afternoon there was almost nobody in the whole graveyard but at his tomb 8 people (10 including me and my wife) came, one by one, to pay tribute to him! That is the power of the real music and poetry! It was an epiphany for me.
Sorry for the long and somehow out-of-topic post, but I had to share this memories... |
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