tom_hipple

the cost of skilled labor has risen faster than the general rate of

inflation.....

Leica makes it's camara using very highly skilled people and very

high quality conponets at every step of the prosses..

the resaule is you get a camara that with proper care and matetenance

will be able to be use by your grand child when she goes to Mars for

a high school class trip...

anyone know a good place to buy a Leica M-6 in Shanghai...What are the prices like there..

I suggest youy go to your local libary and check out an older Morgan

Leica Manual for your SL...

When was the last time you burned a cloth shutter in a leica....keep

them cloth and keep them quite...

I need a camara for a middle school (in my day Jr. High) student...I don't want to loan her my m-4... but I do want her to learn to read the light and set the cqmara her self so a full auto point and shoot is out...

 

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I am told that the old cannon QL G111 is a good range finder with full manaul controls...any one know much about the cannon and what do you think of it a first camara.

anyone ever hear of or seen a panning hear called panogear...if so what was the qulitay of it.

Thank you to those from overseas who have sent their condolances..

I know we all appericiate your thought and prays...

how does a rollie 3.5 red t copare to a yashaka mat G

was the first generation of 28mm F:2.8 lenses made in Germany or Canada or both

How do I get my hands on a copy of a current Leica catalog...

has any one had any experance with the tiltall tripod how did it work... any advice... Should I get one... are the new ones as good as the old ones ....should I buy an old one off the internet ect...

learn the hyperfocal distance for 3 or 4 f stops

 

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use one film (tri-x) and one speed till you have it down

 

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WHY??? tri-x is every where and has be in use for years by useing

just one film you'll laearn how to control it

 

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Street photogaphy is the most fun part of the system...

how good is the Elmarit 28mm with a F2.8 made in canada serial number is in the 2062+++ range....it's black and in very nice condition any quesses as to it worth..

Thank you to all the people who have responded to my tiltall question.

There seems to be quite a few leitz tiltall tripods on e-bay all the time

 

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has anyone had any experance with them ..how good are they ect....

A very old Leica screw mount with a 50mm 3.5 elmar. I had to quess

the exposer because I did have a light meter at first. all my

pictures were in the daylight with tri x.

 

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This camara gave way to a M2 which was traded for the first M4 I saw

the first time I saw it. After 25 years the M4 was stolen. I was

not able to afford Leica's when I replaced the M4 and bought (this is

the early 90's now) a Nikon F with no light meter built in. It's OK

it work well and does things a Leica RF could never do or at least

could not do well.

 

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As soon as I hit the lottery I am buying an M4. Nothing I have ever

pick up fits my hand as well.

 

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I still pick up every Leica I see and play with it.

Thank all of you who resoned to my questions about a camara for my daughter to learn on

 

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It is appericiated very much

 

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Tom

any ideas about the cost to CLA a screw mount leica any suggestion about who to have do it..

 

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Thanks

 

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tom

I am looking for a camara for my daughter to learn on...she knows about F stops ect. and wants to learn on a full manual camara...becase of cost i would like to know...are the any of the leica copies that are realiabl and work farirly well...I am thinking about an e-bay zorki for $40.00 to $60.00...do you have any suggestions or ideas...I am open to any suggestion...

 

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Thank you

 

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Tom