[LRflex] Re: Friday flowers and fog
- From: "Nevin B. Greninger" <greninnb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 19:19:54 -0500
Greetings from Nevin a retiree located near Pittsburgh who has been enjoying
the many nice pictures posted by Leicaflex members. Getting a good picture in a
fog must be a challange - at least the tree outline is distinct and there was
enough light getting through to illuminate the foreground.
Birds for most people (except Doug and a few others) are difficult to capture
on film. I enjoyed seeing the wild duck eyeing the cameraman. Pictures of
pets and domesticated farm animals appeal to many. I especially enjoy seeing
closeup pictures of flowers and live insects.
I found it interesting to see how the Leica SLR camera evolved. I just acquired
a Leicaflex Standard Mark I with a single-cam 135 mm lens but I need to deal
with the mercury battery problem. I understand that a chap from the Nederlands
has a socket that has been modified to accept a silver oxide 1.5 volt battery
and give as output 1.35 volts. Paying to have the the camera's internal
circuit modified is rather expensive unless the camera merits a CLA set of
operations.
Eventually I should acquire a nice 3-cam 135 mm lens to use on my R-3 and R-4
cameras. I enjoy using the cameras in Minolta XE series. Most of the XE
cameras have a maximum shutter speed of 1/1000 second. However, in looking in
my Minolta book that was published in Japanese on cameras and gear for
distribution in Japan I discovered that Minolta in 1976 released the XE b model
. In the Japanese special edition book they and gave the XE b's maximum speed
to be 1/2000 second. It is a very rare camera that seldom comes up for sale
these days.
When I was a college student back in the 1950's I took several courses in
chemical microscopy. In one course I took pictures through a microscope using
4--inch by 5-inch sheet film without the use of a light meter. One first had
to take exposures on a test sheet exposing zones to different amounts of light
in a geometric progression. Then one went into the dark room and processed the
film to yield the correct exposure time. After which one could take the
photomicrograph. When one used an oil immersion lens, one often had a long
exposure time. In my chemistry of photography course I received an orientation
to the 4 by 5 Graflex camera. Its a shame the processing of color 4 by 5 film
has been discontinued. A 4 by 5 inch digital sensor is just not feasible for
the common folk.
In graduate school I got to make effective use of a Polaroid camera attached to
a dual beam oscilloscope. The "great" Polaroid prints gave me the times for the
shock wave to pass various stations. I could then compute the shock speed and
from gas dynamic formulas get the temperature rise across the shock front and
dwell time for the chemical reaction. So the old Polaroid camera of the 1960's
really facilitated data collection and information processing in the
laboratory. I understand that Polaroid is now pursuing a digital camera with a
built-in picture printer. So maybe some useful things other than Polaroid
filters will come out of those using the Polaroid name.
I just acquired a brand new-in-the-box Panasonic digital rangefinder - the
Lumix DMC-LX2 for $265 including shipping so I'll get to tinker with a digital
toy. I visited Wikipedia and typed in Lumix. The article had some links that
led me to an unofficial LX3 site which showed a Lumix LX3 coupled to a
microscope. So I might go unpack my microscope and get a Lumix LX3 camera that
is about equivalent to the much more expensive Leica D-Lux 4 and enjoy once
again photomicrography. If I get good results, I might buy a trinocular
microscope with an excellent illumination system.
I have not pursued infrared film. If any of you have some nice infrared shots
to post, here is one viewer who would enjoy seeing them.
Take care.
Keep on posting great pictures. Comments and suggestions by viewers may help
many of us to improve are techniques.
Kind regards,
Nevin - a retired chemical engineer who will turn 73 on June 20th
----- Original Message -----
From: Aram Langhans
To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 2:40 PM
Subject: [LRflex] Friday flowers and fog
A trip to the cemetery in the fog.
These flowers are not real flowers, but looked cool.
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/Win08/fog-0668.jpg.html>
These were real.
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/Win08/fog-0675.jpg.html>
Rebel XTi and 35-70/4 Elmar
Comments welcome.
Aram
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