Camera Glam Shots

<p>Ok, everyone, show off your leicas.... ltm, r, m, and other.... <br>

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<p>This has come to take the place of my M2. Auto exposure makes for faster working.</p><div></div>

<p><img src="http://blakebillings.net/content/Xrays/leicacl.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="704" /></p>

<p>self portrait<br>

leica d-lux 4<br>

<img src="http://blakebillings.net/content/Xrays/429063_3475948021028_148916800_n.jpg" alt="" width="960" height="946" /></p>

<p>If that is an x-ray of your skull with the Leica, I can't believe you would expose your head to an x-ray machine. Back iin the sixties and before, in the shoe dept. at Sears where I worked, they removed the x-ray machines as they were considered harmful. Also who has access to the machine to produce a non medical hobby image? Just an old guy rant!(grin)</p><div></div>

<p>Wow, Blake, your dentist did nice work, but what I find most intriguing is your bionic eye protesis;) What resolution do they deliver? Can you mount E39 Leica standard filters?</p>

<p>Paul - I'm an x-ray tech and we were testing some equipment - it is my skull</p>

<p>http://blakebillings.net/#/Xrays/</p>

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<p>Blake: that is <em>very</em> cool!</p>

<p>thanks, Robin</p>

<p>My 1970 Super Speed Graphic. Rangefinder works perfectly.</p>

<p><img src="http://iantaylor.ca/graphic.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p>that's an awesomely pretty graflex</p>

<p>Bessa R + Canon 35/1.8...<br>

<a title="PC151013 by Alex Es, on Flickr" href=" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7148/6519051521_b0d2abbeca_b.jpg" alt="PC151013" width="1024" height="768" /></a></p>

<p>Canon 7 and Canon 7s with Nikon S couplers<br>

<a title="PC110995 by Alex Es, on Flickr" href=" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7162/6497517483_2d49a96ef9_b.jpg" alt="PC110995" width="1024" height="768" /></a></p>

<p>Barnack Leicas snd chocolate...<br>

<a title="PC171025 by Alex Es, on Flickr" href=" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7003/6525705239_3779fe6ffd_b.jpg" alt="PC171025" width="1024" height="768" /></a></p>

<p id="yui_3_7_3_3_1370353525106_1091">Canon VT de Luxe + Canon 25/3.5 + Abrahamsson Mini-Softie + Voigtlander 25mm finder and grip.</p>

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<p>first upload didn't work...</p>

<p>This is a photo my grandfather made in ca. 1974 of his newly arrived Leica directly ordered from Wetzlar. Inside was either his Leica M5 or the Leicaflex SL2. I love this picture as it shows he was a camera-nerd like me ;-) Taken with Leica CL.<br>

Mukul: I always wanted to get a Konica RF but trying several in shops, most of them had wrongly adjusted rangefinders or other issues - have you had any reliability problems?<br>

Alex - tempting Gevrey (and tempting Canons...)</p><div></div>

<p>I had problems, Gunnar; which is perhaps only to be expected as the camera model is not new and embodies a certain amount of automation. The first I bought, on eBay, had severe R/F vertical misalignment <em>and</em> its film advance motor and frame counter were not in sync. The seller refunded what I had paid and even reimbursed the expense I incurred in sending the camera back to him. The one in the photo is the second I bought. My testing indicated that I would get front focus, and sure enough the photos showed about 7 centimetres error at 1 to 1.5 metres with two of my lenses. The seller (an RFF member) was willing to take it back, but I decided to see if I could fix the horizontal R/F misalignment of the R/F myself. Well, it turned out to be ridiculously simple. In retrospect, my taking courage was sensible in that the R/F seems to be a particularly weak spot of the camera.<br>

<em>I have illustrated instructions which I found on the Internet and turned into a one-page PDF file. I shall be glad to send this file to you, or to anyone who asks, by e-mail.</em></p>

<p>Gunnar--oh my! What a treat to see something like that!<br>

Did he save the paper wrap?<br>

Paul</p>

<img src="http://www.leicaplace.com/members/brian/albums/carl-zeiss-c-sonnar-50-1-5/693-c-sonnar-50-1-5-m-monochrom-carl-zeiss-jena-5cm-f1-5-sonnar-leica-mount-leica-iii-carl-zeiss-50-1-5-sonnar-contax-mount.jpg">

 

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Three generations of 5cm F1.5 Sonnars. "Glamor Shot" for an article on the C-Sonnar that I am putting together.

<img src="http://www.leicaplace.com/members/brian/albums/1934-carl-zeiss-jena-5cm-f1-5-converted-ltm/64-sonnar-160.jpg">

 

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And a "first generation" 5cm F1.5 Sonnar from 1934, custom converted.

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<p>Mukul, thanks for the detailed info! That is truly interesting... I really like the handling of the Konica just the rangefinder was a bit of a draw back to me at that time. Good to see that it can be dealt with.<br>

Paul - he did not. I found this photo about twenty years after his death, after my grandma died and I inherited all his slides. It was heart-warming to me! Here is the second shot I found, I guess it was his personal x-mas present, I believe... nothing is left of all these :-( - just my faible for rangefinders and his beautiful slides.</p><div></div>

<img src="http://www.leicaplace.com/members/brian/albums/mt-vernon-m9-m-monochrom/713-nikkor-5cm-f15-2.jpg"> <p>

 

My new lens just arrived yesterday. Will be testing it out over the next few weeks, write up an article on it. Not many made, same type lens that David Douglas Duncan used in Korea, a Nikkor 5cm F1.5. Maybe 300 made in Leica mount, less than 800 total. Posed with the 1951 US Camera Annual that features DDD's work for "This is War!"

Six years ago. Car has been sold but not the M6