[LRflex] What a Welcome
- From: "Chris Birchenhall" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <LeicaReflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:33:19 +0100
Hi guys
Many thanks for the warm welcome and all that useful information on R
cameras. One more question if I may indulge your patience. I have been very
impressed with the viewfinder on the SL2. It is clear, focusing is really
simple, it gives me all the key information and the match needle system is
simple to use. David Young when speaking about the R8 wrote: "The finder is
second only to the SL/SL2 and will blow nearly everything else out of the
water." Does the R8 finder really not match that of the SL2? I can note Jem
Kime (of the newly merged Leica Society) runs the The Real Camera shop in
Manchester and he has a s/h R8 that is tempting me, but it is one of the
first batch from Germany.
I have just started a photo-blog (not restricted to Leica) at
http://photo-odyssey.blogspot.com/.
Not much there yet but I am working at it.
I am also playing with the new free-silver site for Leicas (
<http://leica.free-silver.org/> http://leica.free-silver.org/). It looks
useful; the editing facilities look comprehensive. There I have loaded some
test shots for the new SL2; I have to stress they are just that - test shots
- and I make no claims for them. See them more as an experiment in the new
site. On the basis of my prints from these test shots I have to say I am
very pleased with the f2.8/35mm Elmarit-R. The jury is still out on the 60mm
Macro. One of my long standing favourite Nikon lenses has been the 55mm
Micro (at first f3.5 and now f2.8 - have an eye on the 60mm AF); not sure
the Leica 60mm matches them, but it is early days. In any case, it is an
interesting focal length.
All the best, Chris Birchenhall
P.S. A word to Douglas Sharp: I may be an adopted Mancunian - been here for
over 30 yrs - but I was born and bred in the Potteries.
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