g_nter_haika

Jorge:

thank you for the "how-to". will use it the next time!

Eric:

thanks for the nice comment. it was shot one of my first outings with my then newly bought, used m6.

günter

http://www.photo.net/photo/1454811

35/1.4

like most people on this thread, i'd also suggest 35mm, but the summilux asph. after all, low light photography is a real argument for the leica in the first place, so why not use a really fast lens?

günter

Hi everyone,

it looks as though raw mode is not possible in remote shooting (v.1.1)

with the digilux 2. does anyone know a workaround, or know about a

possible software upgrade?

thanks,

günter

Hi all,

it looks as though raw mode is not possible in remote shooting (v.1.1)

with the digilux 2. does anyone know a workaround, or know about a

possible software upgrade?

thanks,

günter

What really happened: The film got torn inside the cartridge, at the very end. However, your hints about fixing the rewind knob were extremely useful. Seymour is right with his comment about remotely administering aid, but in my book, all who tried to help seemed very qualified! As for me, I have done some troubleshooting and repair on my Hasselblad cameras, but I'm relatively new to the Leica world and appreciate the help the members of this forum so readily give.

Günter

Thanks, Jay! - Charles, Fujifilm 400.

Günter

Thank you, Jay and Charles,

after posting my question and while hoping for answers, I did go to the darkroom to get the film out by manually spooling it, and it did not come out. I had to loosen it in the rear window and pull it out. It seems that I actually managed to break the film's spool rather than the winding knob. (Or so I hope at this point!)

However, the winding knob is sticking out higher than usual. You said something about winding the wrong way and it would come off entirely. Maybe I did really wind it the wrong way by accident. I'll try to turn it the right way with resistance to bring it all the way back again.

Günter

When rewinding my M6 today, the rewind knob suddenly had no

resistance, but the film was not all spooled back yet. Rather, the

rewind knob quit working. Has anyone experienced this problem? And,

what should I expect to be charged for the repair?

Günter

Mine is 352xxxxx, made in Canada, but is already the newer version. It performs great; probably the sharpest lens I own.

Günter

Dan,

the two photos you have posted here certainly show that you are by no means a master yourself. so what's your point?

Günter

great shot, bo!

günter

no words / few words / some words are the first threads i open when visiting the leica forum (daily). the different approaches to the topics are as intriguing as they are stimulating and inspiring. i also enjoy the generally high quality of the contributions. however, i also like to read the occasional comment, criticism or suggestion, and therefore take the liberty to interpret all these threads as "few words" or "some words".

günter

very rarely, and only in situations where I hope to come back and might learn from the first shoot. E.g., in addition to bracketing, I took general notes in Antelope Canyon the first time around, and got 90 percent of my acceptable pics on the second trip. (see http://www.wfu.edu/users/haikagk/galerie5/gal5indx.htm)

- sorry, Hasselblad images from my pre-Leica years.

Günter

Harvey - well, you don't let me get away with it. Yet, in your reply you first use a different culture's set of values to demonstrate that the line between Art and porn is drawn in different places for different people and cultures, so it is flexible (I never said it wasn't), and then you come back to the "western" culture and freedom of expression. I wrote my answer the way I did because I see myself as part of the western lifestyle, and because I see it jeopardized by a fundamentalism (not only religious) which does no longer tolerate the freedom of mind we have come to treasure. I totally agree with you that making people uncomfortable (i.e., create controversy) is important for all of us; and it is particularly important in Art.

Tom - I'm sorry, but the very first sentence in your initial question linked your new thread to Bob Shell.

Art - thanks for quoting Klimt, my fellow countryman. :-)

Günter

Tom,

your choice of words or rather a word (whores) betrays that you are obviously uncomfortable with the fact that the depiction of nudes has been a major sujet in the arts (or Arts) for ages, even before the whole thing became so commercialized that the nude (model) could be so wrongly associated with those getting paid for providing sexual services.

I feel sorry for those who cannot distinguish between the nude in Art and the nude in porn. (And, by the way, since you wrote this following up the Bob Shell thread, I feel sorry for those who are not willing to respect a person's legal right to be regarded not guilty before proven otherwise.) Art is about freedom - freedom of mind, that is, in other words: freedom of those who like to think for themselves and not let others dictate what they could or could not do. Porn, quite on the other side, is about money. It sells, so they do it. (I believe that it is the "good" moralists who make porn successful by creating the demand for what they are trying to hide, what to them appears "dirty" even in its cleanest form: the beauty of the unclad human.)

My native language is German, where we unfortunately lack the wonderful distinction between "nude" and "naked" of the English language. Why is it that some English speakers cannot see this distinction?

By the way, "Ways of Seeing" by John Berger gives an excellent introduction to art, and particularly the nude in the arts.

Günter

i like it. never been there (or met him), but i guess it would be great a great illustration for a book on hades.

günter