chad_hahn

I-10 heading east has a pretty good elevated view of the Superdome and downtown. You

probably can't park along side the interstate but if stuck in traffic, you should be able to get

a good grab shot.

Chad

I bought a cheap Chinese adapter, (It cost less than $20 delivered). It works great. DOF is

at 12 o'clock, focuses correctly everything. Maybe I was just lucky or maybe it was made at

the Voigtlander factory after hours but I like it. It even looks quality.

Chad

"So, if you go into a store where a product is displayed, and the guy says it's good, that's

OK. But a guy who sells it here says it's OK, that's bad. This is laughable. He sells large

format camera gear. He sells Gitzo, Would you have a crying snit if he suggested one

should buy Gitzo and Berlebach as well? Grow up."

So, it's ok for the President of Whole Foods to go on the internet and disparage his

competition before putting a bid in on the company? Giving people advice about a

product when you have a vested interest is unethical at best and criminal at worst.

Grow up.

Chad

I have seen this mentioned before but two weeks ago I dropped off two rolls of Kodachrome 64 at the

Wal Mart film department and today they came back. The cost was $3.88 a roll!

I don't know how it is processed these days but it didn't come in Kodachrome mount but a generic one

that read Color Transparency.

I guess some good can be said for Wal Marts low balling.

Chad

The best part is that with this on your head people will think that you're insane. You could

go right up to someone and take their picture with out fear of getting slugged or yelled at.

No one is going to chase a crazy person down the street.

If you mumbled about the mother ship needing photos while you were taking the pictures it

would help as well.

Chad

When I used to go to Chicago I'd stay at the Whitehall. It is just down the street from the

Ritz and I could get rates online for $100.00 a night. That was a few years ago and rates

might not be that cheap.

I liked the hotel, the room was a little small but it was in walking distance to a couple

pizza joints and a good italian resturant among other things.

Chad

I saw this and looking at the expressions on people's faces it seems like the perfect thing for people who

are nervous about street photography. No need to fear a punch in the face.

http://www.juergenspecht.com/truestories/?number=1&storypage=2

Chad

I always enjoyed Amy's dad on M*A*S*H.

Chad

Not all TTLs have the battery problem. I have had mine for a over a month now and leave

the camera on all the time. I'm still on the same set of batteries.

If the contacts in the battery compartment are recessed, like they are on the older ones,

then the battery drain problem is corrected and the battery life is as good as in the classic.

Chad

Also, the TTL shutter speed dial is larger and closer to the edge of the camera. It is easier

to turn with your index finger and not remove your eye from the viewfinder.

Since the shutter speed dial moves in the opposite direction, you turn the dial the direction

the exposure meter arrow is pointing. The same holds true for the aperature ring on the

lens.

Chad

"Did you know that NASA borrowed a Sputnik in the middle of the night to reverse engineer

our first space flight. "

That is totally wrong, our knowledge of space travel came from Roswell NM, along with the

microwave oven and DVD player the aliens had on board the UFO.

Chad

Cebes I'm not sure if I follow your logic. NASA picked the Omega Speedmaster watch for

use in space by going to a local jeweler and buying watches off the shelf. Omega didn't

even know that their watch was chosen until well after the fact.

Just because Joe Smith goes into a store to buy a watch or in the case Joe Sato goes into a

lens store to buy a Leica lens doesn't mean that he's the person who works for Nikon.

Chad

He directed the infamous Rolling Stones film "C**ksucker Blues".

Chad

Hard to tell from this picture but chances are almost 100% that it's a Russian copy. If there

were actuall as many Leicas with Nazi emblems as there are for sale everyone in ther third

reich would have been carrying a camera. Chad

I second developing the negatives your self. I also once sent off a roll to a high end place

for developing.

The prints were so washed out that I had to look at the negatives to make sure that I

hadn't over-exposed the whole roll. The negs were fine, it was the printing that sucked.

If you develop the negatives yourself and want them printed, any one hour place can make

prints from you black and white negative for you. As long as you don't want more than a

straight print that is.

Chad

What problems are you having with it? Perhaps we can help.

Chad

I spent two weeks in Japan and shot something like 14 rolls of print film and 8 rolls of slide.

There is lots to take pictures of and the people are very accommodating to photographers.

I was walking down the street and stopped to take a picture of a monk standing on the

other side. When I finished taking the picture I noticed that a truck had stopped so that he

wouldn't drive through my shot. Traffic was backed up behind him.

Chad

I didn't dicard the negatives. I was going to wait until I got some advice before I did anything else. I went and got some more fixer and am planning on refixing the negs now.

I'll let you know how they turn out.

Chad

Thanks, that's a load off my mind. The fixer probably was too weak. I'll get more and try again.

Of course the film was irreplacable. This stuff never happens with pictures that can be done over.

Chad

I developed a couple of rolls of film tonight after not doing it for

awhile. Instead of agitating the film every 30 seconds, I only shook

once a minute.

When I looked at the film the stock is opaque. I can see the image on

both sides of the film, but can't see through when holding the film up

to the light.

Is this film ruined or can I re-process it? If not that is there

anything else I can do?

I feel like a fool for this, I even thought half way through

devoloping that I wasn't doing it right.

Chad

I don't think that you can call a Leica "just a tool". It's a fashion statement. Either the statement is "Look at this very expensive camera I have!" or it's "Look at the funky looking outdated camera I use!"

Calling it a tool seems like justifing the $4,000 you dropped on fifty year old design that only recently got some thirty year old technology added to it.

I don't see anything wrong with taking care of your camera. Although I guess abusing the camera is just another fashions statement.

Chad

Things are really different in the US. A lot of places want you to deal with the manufacturer if the box has been opened.

In fact, the Sony box says that if you have problems not to take the camera back to the store.

I wonder if things are the same in Canada? I'll bring the camera to a Target there!

Chad

I have a collapsible Summicron on my IIf. It has cleaning marks on the front element and a sticky aperature. I have never had any problems with the lens. It takes great pictures and I haven't had any flair. I wouldn't worry too much about recoating the front element unless the lens was really messed up.

Chad