chris c Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 and you had to answer this question WITHOUT mentioning weight or money what would you say....If you mention either or both of the unmentionables your out. I have a Leica M7 (M6 etc) and I wish to document my trip to your planet both in b+w and color. Understanding that I have unlimited funds and herculean strength what equipment would you use to accomplish all the tasks of full life long documentation? Be specific: A Noct but only @ 1.0 not 1.4 & greater then a 50 cron etc. Filters, film, flash etc Thanks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 Its academic. If the gases in our atmosphere have'nt fried your lungs then our species' rampant xenophobia will ensure you are destroyed within minutes of emerging from your craft. If a mob has'nt lynched you yet then the muggers will have killed you for your Leica M7 and lens(es). If you avoided all that then the authorities will impound you and declare war on your planet. (It doesnt matter that its 100 light years away , they WILL declare war on it anyway!) Your M7 will be blown up in a controlled detonation by an anti-terrorist bomb squad. A friend travelled to CA from here in the UK. He had a mountain bike in the hold of the aircraft and was waiting at the airport to be re-united with it after the flight. After some enquiries it emerged that his bike was in a large plastic bin having been hacksawed into many small pieces by airport security... "In case it contained explosives / narcotics / illegal immigrants / fruit" lurking inside the tubes of the frame! He is an English cyclist and you are from Planet Zort. (or wherever) You would not get 30 yards down the road before the same thing happened to your craft. You will not have a Leica anyway because... Being a stranger your research would indicate that 90 percent of people use some defective plastic P&S that is about 10 years old and still has the same film in it that it was purchased with along with a dead battery. You will naturally assume (being a logical little alien) that the majority of people will be using the best choice of camera so you will seek out a similar piece on E-bay. (And buy a huge quantity of Kodak Zoom Max 800 using the same logic.) And besides this choice helps you to blend in. If you have survived un-molested so far then you are now hungry. Where do most people go for nourishment? MacDonalds of course. Now you are dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael_kastner Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 My M6 TTL plus 21A plus its own hot shoe VF, hyperfocus set to infinity, Elite Chrome 400. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 If you are short of money (how many aliens get issued with Amex?) then the surface of the moon is littered with discarded NASA Hasselblads. Stop there first and pick a few up then you can sell all but one of them to collectors here on earth for a small fortune and keep one for your own use. This will keep you in adequate funds for your trip. The one you kept can be sold when your trip is complete to pay for the parking charges for your craft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i want my photo.net histor Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 Thats if they did really go to the moon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 Yes sorry. The juries still out on that one I grant you. Imagine if the Russians had gone there first, the moon littered with old Lubitels and Kievs and faked up Leica 'replicas'. What a mess! I guess the Americans did the Swedes an enormous favour though. In thousands of years time when inter galactic archeologists find these old cameras on the moons surface they will conclude that Swedish , Hasselblad toting Astronauts were the first men to walk on a celestial body. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ralph_barker Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 <p>Sorry, Chris. It's been tried before. Unsuccessfully.</p> <center> <img border=2 src="http://www.rbarkerphoto.com/misc/Travel/VAC0902-1814-550.jpg"> <p><small>M6TTL, 50mm Noctilux, Fuji Provia</small></p> </center> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob F. Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 Chris, you will be spending most of your time running away from tabloid reporters and FBI agents. You will need a small outfit that you can shoot with quickly, and manage on the run. Use your M7. Get a 28mm Summicron; a 50mm Summicron; and a 90mm Tele-Elmarit. Unobtrusive, light, and a good spread of focal lengths with no need to mess around with external finders. You have to work fast. Keep the extra lenses in your space suit. It's hard to run with a bulky camera bag. Take color slides. Your space vehicle may not have the 115 volts AC needed to run an Ektagraphic, so you'll need a 4x Schneider loup. If you can run a slide projector, don't use those cheap plastic Kodak lenses. You'll never see what your Leica can do. Use Buhl or Golden Navitar lenses; or get a Leica projector with Leica projection lenses. And for heaven's sake, don't show your Leica slides on the bulkhead of your spaceship. The curved surfaces will wreck the focus. Invest in a proper screen from Da-Lite; or at the very least, get a piece of foam-core board and paint it dead white. Have you film processed locally before leaving. The cosmic rays in outer space might fog any undeveloped film. Watch out for airport X-Ray machines. Wait for the light and hold hands (or whatever you have) with the other pedestrians when crossing the street. Stay out of McDonald's and Burger Death. Visit Mexico, but don't drink the water. Ask permission before photographing the people there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris c Posted October 23, 2002 Author Share Posted October 23, 2002 Trevor you can go back to sleep now...having suitably impressed all with your creativity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feli Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 Hahahahaaa.... feli Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray . Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 Oh no Trevor, not back to sleep, you've got me cracking up here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leslie_cheung Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 the leica forum is like no other forum:O) trevor is indeed very creative. maybe the alien would have the knowledge to create a digi M the size of a minox with zillion pixels. or better yet a M with a polaroid back ---billy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_s1 Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 Weight!...Money!...Darn, I'm out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Rowlett Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 Rob F., your response has me ROTFLMAO!!! I will not be able to concentrate on anything else (work) for the rest of the day... thank you!!! Backups? We don’t need no stinking ba #.’ _ , J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuart d Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 Trevor, If Ford Prefect could get his hands on an Amex card, then I guess any alien dumb enough to land here wouldn't have too hard a time getting its grubby paws/suckers/digit equivalents on one. Begs the question, though - what would the alien spend its Amex airmiles on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gib Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 Trevor? What do you eat for breakfast? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albert knapp md Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 It is not what Trevor ATE but what he SMOKED before answering this question! I would bring two M7s, a 35mm f/1.4 and a 90mm f/2 along with a panoply of ND, UV and polarizing filters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray_moth Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 Visoflex and be there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob F. Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 Thanks, Tony. Glad you liked it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuart d Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 C'mon guys, you've never read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? I think that's the literary diet Trevor's been snacking on. If you haven't read any of the late great Douglas Adams' works, you ought to. Maybe while sipping a Pan-Galactic Gargleblaster... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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