jay bee

Chad, I read the Ultimate Exposure Guide article you were nice enough to provide and was struck by something counter-intuitive to my novice, meter reliant brain. It said that for lighter subjects you'd want to use a larger aperture/slower shutter speed and go with a smaller aperture/faster shutter for darker subjects. I'd think you'd want to let more light hit the film for darker subjects and less for lighter ones not vice versa.

 

Know I'm missing something, thanks for any pending lessons.

Gotta get me to that Zurich street parade.

Just wanted to convey my recent experience with Leica USA in NJ.

Thanks to many of you my M6 TTL was diagnosed with a shutter light

leak. I dropped it off 2 weeks ago and have it back in my hands as I

type.

 

Not only did they repair the light leak (which I need to confirm by

putting a roll or two through the camera), but they replaced a

smashed in strap eyelet along with the CLA. And a nice Leica

Customer Service black velvet drawstring bag to boot!

 

Granted, I was able to drop off/pick it up myself so that surely

expedited matters some but they exceeded my expectation beyond the

top notch level of service one would expect from a high end company.

 

Finally since this was done under my passport warranty I was even

further surprised at the swiftness since there wasn't an incremental

dime in it for them. I know I already "paid" for it, but that does

not provide any incentive to Leica to get it done so fast.

 

Clearly they desire satisfied (leading to loyal) customers. Seems

like some companies still get it.

As someone who learned to drive on a bright yellow '73 Beetle, I love that photo. Great shot.

Marc,

 

Y&R is still there, busting at the seams from what I understand (Young and Move Again). Actually interviewed there, but wound up working at Ogilvy and Matehr and did the lowly media planning thing till I got bright and decided I needed to make some cash. Some of the best times of my life and I consider it my MBA, but they paid a pittance.

I definitely killed time in a Chock full o' Nuts back in 1990 interviewing for my first job at Young & Rubicam - Madison in the low 40's. Also going to work with my Dad on Wall Street back in the late 70's and patronizing one down there.

 

Thanks for the memories...

As allways thanks for the solid responses.

So I now suspect that my M6ttl has a shutter leak, thanks to insight

from someone during a recent 50mm 'cron flare thread. Not able to

find suggested remedies in the archives. It does seem to happen when

I change lenses mid-roll. Is this an acceptable nuisance or should

it/can it be easily rectified?

 

Fortunately the camera is still under its Passport warranty and I

live within a 15 minute drive of Leica's NJ facility, but I don't

want to give up the camera for any length of time if its not

necessary. I go to a camera store that is very knowledgeable about

Leica gear and was wondering if I might want to try them first. Is

that realistic or should I just take my medicine and give it to the

folks in Northvale? Thanks in advance...

I find that if I get "victimized" by flare with my rigid summicron that it always appears as a line down the left-hand side of the frame affected. Why would that be? (PS - its been CLA'd by Sherry in the last year).

Asking who Babe Ruth was is like asking who David Beckham is...

Funny, I was just thinking the same thing and did a Google search. Unfortunately nothing new turned up.

Great question. Especially when you get the glass on Panasonic models for less.

A sight I've seen all too much this year in the northeast US, today included...

Harvey - the only troll round here is you and your clearly US phobic views...

Never doubted your ability to be insulting Harvey...

Harvey - must you turn everything into a soap box for you to spew from?

Kevin - quick quiz, did your boy Bill ever get more than 50% of the popular vote?

Its funny, I never thought our country was as villanous during the dark days of Clinton as may left wingers feel now that the shoe is on the other foot. Talk about lying to the American public - Clinton was impeached yet he and his wife continue to hold sway over the democratic party. Still and all, I celebrated our country, its greatness and the opportunity that it provided my grandfather when he came over 90 years ago to plant a seed that became my family tree here in the US throughout the 1990's.

 

Again, it appears that the left is so utterly frustrated and focused on the negatives that they can't see the forest for the trees. But talk about choice - y'all can leave any time because the current winds of change are here to stay. Public healthcare, transportation, etc - these are somehow "rights"? The attempted redistribution of wealth and penalies against people who make money and heaven forbid ascribe to a traditional family make-up (read the marraige penalty in the current tax code) is more offensive than anything currently happening in government.

 

The fact that Bush is jumping on the national healthcare bandwagon is very disconcerting to someone like myself, a 30 something suburban professional who forsees the road to ruin that social security, medicare, et al is leading our country. I live in a dual income household because its necessitated to make ends meet and provide for my 2 little girls when the government makes a grab for as much as they do. This country was built on opportunity, boot strapping and entrepreneurship - not hand-outs and regime building in the federal buearacracy.

 

But again the 4th is about celebrating. Apparently there are many who are so incensed by the fact that their point of view (read liberal/leftists) has been repudiated in the last 2 election cycles ('00 and '02) that they no longer see the greatness of our country. If that constitutes blind patriotism and small mindedness, I'll take that any day over the misery of people like Alex and Harvey.

Alex are you on crack comparing Bush to Hitler and Nazis?

Harvey - Independence Day doesn't celebrate war, it marks the occassion of our declaring indepedence from Britain. The red coats pushed the war issue as much as anyone.

 

To those who choose to accentuate the negative have a happy day.

Bob - thanks.

 

Like it or not, July 4th is an occassion to celebrate our patriotism. Unfortunately some find this an excuse to spout their anti-american sentiments, be them within or outside this country.

 

We all know that slavery and the perpetuation of it was a travesty and as counter to the ideals of the founding of the US as possible. Lets not forget that we were founded largely by Brits so any lofty claims of stopping the scurge just mitigates their involvement in bringing the institution to these lands.

 

But then I'm sure none of your countries have anything to be ashamed of, people in glass houses...

I too like the larger speed dial and don't suffer from any existing prejudices regarding the direction it turns as my TTL was my first Leica M. Additionally, though I never use flash, I do occasionally use filters for black and white photography and like that I don't have to compensate for exposures since it meters TTL.

Like Linda I like Scala alot and have shot a bunch of Tri-X and HP5 (prefer HP5 nowadays). However, just shot two rolls of Agfa APX 100 and I like it quite a bit so me thinks I've found a B&W 100 film to go with HP5.

Randy,

 

My pix tend to be of the same subject matter and I must say that Reala is it for me when it comes to using color negative film as well.

 

Great shots,

JB

Definitely a great show, I liked seeing Pinky after having read about her in Slightly Out of Focus.

 

One thing I found somewhat curious - not one direct interview of Capa apparently exists, or at least none made their way on the show. Understand he passed before the media orgy we have today, but certainly he made his way in front of a motion picture camera at some point during his amazing life.