[LRflex] Re: Bokeh (OT)

Dave, you are a fountain of great information.
Thanks, from Clearwater.
Dave




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From: David Young <dsy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tue, April 13, 2010 7:24:46 AM
Subject: [LRflex] Re: Bokeh (OT)

At 03:28 AM 13/04/2010, you wrote:
>  Thank you Walter and Herman,
>Any experience with the 70-210 F4.  I read that it is a Japanese lens but
>also is very good.
>
>Also, am considering a scanner and wonder about the PlusTek 7600, never used
>a scanner
>like this and for the very times I will use do not want to spend a fortune.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Reg


Hi Reg!

Welcome to the zoo!

The 70~210/4 zoom is an older, Minolta designed, Minolta made zoom, 
which was a good lens, for it's day.  By comparison, the 80~200/4 is 
a much newer, Leica designed lens, built by Kyocera ... who made the 
Zeiss stuff, for years. (They are now out of the photo biz, except 
for cameras for telephones.) The newer, Zeiss ZE series, that Herman 
mentioned, are, I understand, built by Cosina/Voigtlander, but of Zeiss design.

The 80~200/4 is, perhaps, the best value in the Leica R line.  An 
absolutely stunning lens, with very nice bokeh, to boot!

As to the R3, it's an older camera, basically modelled on a Minolta 
design, though with different (better) metering than the Minolta 
equivalent. It suffers numerous problems, at this age.  The metering 
is one. On mine, the automatic worked fine, unless you were in light 
that called for shorter than the 1/1000th maximum shutter 
speed.  Mine would then "roll over" to the 1 second exposure, rather 
than blink the VF indicator, indicating overload!  (In Canada, 
Kindermann will repair an R3 for double the price of any other "R" 
camera, but only warranty their work for 90 days, vs a year on any 
other model.)

The R8 (I miss mine) is an excellent camera, with wonderful 
ergonomics, despite it's rather unusual look.  The finder is 
brilliant - much better than the R3 through R7 models - though not 
quite as good as the old SL.  It's only known vices are the rotary 
mode switch, which is rather easily bumped (a wee bit of gaffers tape 
can fix that, if it becomes a nuisance - in fact I found the lock 
Leica put on the R9, to solve this problem, to be more of a pain than 
the original problem!) and the meter cells have been known to die, on 
occasion.  This is not a common problem and is readily fixed, should 
it ever happen, at not too large an expense.

I cannot comment on the PlusTek 7600, but their new one, the 7600i 
looks, on "paper" to be a very nice unit,. The 7600x7600 px certainly 
improves on the 4000x4000 resolution of the Nikon Coolscans.  I have 
the Coolscan V, and it's excellent.  They are available, fairly 
reasonably, on the used market.  However, if you are forced, as I 
recently was, to move to Windows 7 (or, ugh, Vista), as I was, by a 
recent computer failure, the Nikon supplied software (which worked 
well, under XP) does not work.  Actually, it installs and works just 
fine... but the drivers that actually run the machine don't work, and 
Nikon has no interest in writing new, 64 bit ones.  The solution is 
VueScan, (A US$40 download from http://www.hamrick.com/) which runs 
my LS-50 Coolscan perfectly.

I bought VueScan back in 1999, and didn't care for it then... but 
kept my license info.  I downloaded the latest version, which works 
very nicely indeed (amazing the improvements in 11 years!), and the 
license code still worked!   Had a slight hiccup, and discovered Ed 
Hamrick actually answers his own email!  Cannot recommend the 
Nikon/Vuescan combination highly enough!

Once again, Welcome to the zoo!

David (Zoo keeper) Young.


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