[LRflex] Re: Bokeh (OT)
- From: David Young <dsy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 07:24:46 -0700
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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Logan Lake, BC, Canada
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