[LRflex] Re: Friday flowers and fog - Nevin

  • From: Philippe AMARD <philippe.amard@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:35:38 +0100

Hi Nevin a belated welcome to you.

Owing to Leica's lack of interest in reflex users and their quasi current non existant offer, I sometimes wonder if there is still a point of having a list about Leica reflexes, but your interest wipes all my qualms out.
So welcome to the list.

Minolta : I was a happy user of the SRT 101 a (short?) while ago ;-)
R3 - I sold mine only recently, to a Fellow Lister - I hope they are happily married.
R4; I still have one. Battered but faithful - that's what Leica is about.

I've never had a 135 on a Leica - used to on an OM2 and on a my Pentaxes. So I'd be curious to know if you think they fare well when you get hold of your functional gear.

Lumix: I currently own and use much an L1 - I'm always surprised at how good digital can be sometimes compared to film - not always, but you often can succeed in shots unthinkable with film.

Well, to cut a long story short Nevin,
Welcome and
Long live Leica reflexes and David's (our) list.

Bien cordialement from Metz (Fr)
Phili^^e


Nevin B. Greninger wrote:

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 <mailto:leica_r8@xxxxxxxxxxx>
    To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto: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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