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Thanks for the tip. I found the whole archive - looks like he went everywhere!: Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection >> Home

Adobe still makes CS2 available for download together with installation keys, but as they explain on the page, it is only intended for people who already hold an appropriate licence: Download Adobe Acrobat 7 and Adobe Creative Suite 2 products (might need to disable Javascript to read that page without being redirected to a generic login page). There would in any case be various issues with running it on modern systems, including compatibility problems (especially on Macs) and serious unpatched security holes that would make a networked computer open to a range of attacks (especially on Windows). For free options, you might look at GIMP or (on Windows) Paint.NET. Ninite is a good way to install both on Windows without risking malware: GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program Paint.NET - Free Software for Digital Photo Editing Ninite - Install or Update Multiple Apps at Once

FED production began in the 1930s, well before war reparations, so the camera would have been reverse-engineered. After the war, UK and US teams were given access to the original drawings and the production process at Leitz, information that was presumably used to build the Reid III, the British Leica copy: LEITZ INVESTIGATED BY BRITISH INTELLIGENCE 1946 LEITZ INVESTIGATED BY BRITISH INTELLIGENCE 1946 continued ...

I'm not sure you can beat it for the price. It has a great sensor for portraits. If you buy one, check out the AF thoroughly, including the accuracy of the side points, as there were some issues early on (my secondhand D800 had already been back to Nikon to fix this before I bought it). It isn't the quietest or lightest camera around and the framerate is fairly low, but I doubt that will bother you. The files shouldn't be a problem for any reasonably modern computer.

The USSR wasn't too bothered about western European patent laws, and made Leica clones in large numbers from the 1930s onwards. But these were 'honest' copies, originally with FED or Zorki engravings: Oscar Fricke: The Dzerzhinsky Commune: Birth of the Soviet 35 mm Camera Industry Fakers take these cameras, perhaps many decades after they were originally manufactured, dress them up as Leicas with false engravings, and often re-finish them in other ways (chrome stripped down to the brass to emulate gold-plated 'Luxus' Leicas and fake military engravings are common features).

The big bright screw heads on the front, the shape of the 'lock' next to the film chamber and the screw head pattern on the bottom plate, amongst other things, all look Soviet.

Adobe's DNG converter will almost certainly be updated to support the D850 within a few weeks of its launch, which will give you a route to CS6 if you don't mind an extra processing step: Adobe Digital Negative Converter 9.x Digital Negative (DNG), Adobe DNG Converter | Adobe Photoshop CC Personally I'd always keep the original NEF too. Nikon's Capture NX-D and VIewNX-i will also have D850 support, of course, so you could use either of these for raw conversion and export a tiff or jpeg to PS.

By the time you buy a D850, you'll have plenty of options. Adobe will have released an updated DNG converter, probably within weeks of the camera becoming available, which should allow you to use your existing copy of LR 5.7 with just one extra conversion step (personally I would keep the original NEFs as well). LR6 (or perhaps even 7 by then?) will be updated to handle D850 NEFs directly. Nikon will have updated Capture NX-D and ViewNX-i, their free raw conversion packages, for the D850, so you can output tiffs or jpegs that can be edited in anything. Every other current raw converter will have D850 support.

The SCNOO is a pretty exotic and specialised thing to repair, and I suspect it wouldn't be cost-effective to fix before selling - someone would have to find or fabricate a trigger, and the tape is probably also lost: DIY repair a SCNOO triggerwinder for Barnack Leicas - Johan N. Kuiper | fotograaf in Assen but you might call one of the well-known Leica repair places in case they are interested: Leica FAQ — Repairs You can get further advice and maybe sell your gear on one of these forums (but take care to check their rules on posting adverts first!): Rangefinderforum.com Portal - Rangefinderforum Leica Forum The lens, hood and other accessories can each be sold separately. You could find a conventional IIIa base plate to complete the camera without the SCNOO, but it will probably cost something like 1/3 of the value of the camera.

Assume you don't also have the regular baseplate? A broken SCNOO would make the camera more complicated to sell, especially if there's a key part missing. This is how it's supposed to work:

I think Sandy is right - the base plate might be a SCNOO, an early trigger winder (perhaps with a missing trigger?). In good (complete) condition this might be worth more than the camera. The lens is a 5cm Summar.

A 1937 IIIa by the serial number, modified later at the factory to add IIIf-style flash synchronisation = 'IIIa sync'. Don' t know about the accessory base plate. The white thing looks like an Invercone for incident light readings on one of the Weston Master exposure meters.

Googling the serial number 369092 I see this Luftwaffe Leica IIIc was just auctioned for more than $2000 USD at shopgoodwill.com: shopgoodwill.com - #42891228 - Vintage Leica D.R.P. Ernst Wetzlar #369092 - 8/26/2017 6:49:00 PM

There is no doubt that this is a genuine Leica of the correct period. An expert would only be required to authenticate the extra Luftwaffe engravings. If they are also genuine you have to be careful about CLAs - e.g., replacing original red shutter blinds (if it has them) would probably reduce the value to a collector.

Not sure if it's the same camera, but she was presented with a personally engraved M6 which was checked out by CRR Luton (legendary Leica technician Peter Grisaffi).

As well as the serial number, it has the features of a wartime IIIc (eyepiece adjustment lever with knob, 'step' under rewind lever). An expert can confirm if the Luftwaffe engravings are genuine. FL ('Flieger' = flyer) No 38079 is a standard Luftwaffe camera inventory number (not unique to your specific camera). If you take the case off, is there anything embossed on the hard rubber ('Vulcanite') back? If you take the lens off, what colour are the shutter blinds?

The meter on the M6 is absolutely fine, though the viewfinder indicators only tell you whether the exposure is over/under/correct rather than displaying the specific shutter speed or aperture settings. Its 50mm framelines are optimised for close focus - at the longer distances usually used for architecture you'll be capturing quite a bit outside the framelines, which can be estimated with a rule of thumb: Leica FAQ — M frame-line accuracy For the Erwin Puts guide to Leica lenses mentioned above, see this previous thread: Non-contrast and non-sharp 35 and 50 ltm lenses

Possible solution here: Productivity - Registration 'nag' screen for Photoshop CS2

Another vote for Affinity - nice, modern interface (some things are faster than PS) and very reasonably priced. For me it's a complete PS replacement, but I use other raw converters (Affinity is weak at this).

Dieter's link has the correct answer: "Activation server unavailable" error in Adobe CS2, Acrobat 7, and Audition 3 Adobe released a version of CS2 for download that does not require online registration when they "disabled the activation server for CS2 products, including Acrobat 7, because of a technical issue". Follow the link for a free download and activation keys. There should be no need to put XP online, and it is in any case no longer advisable, especially when you are installing products like CS2 that have known security vulnerabilities.

I'm sorry, but I'm finding it very difficult to take any of the discussion on this thread seriously when all the authors seem ignorant of Crosley Bendix's pioneering work on colour perception theory, which makes CIE 1931 and all its derivatives completely obsolete: Squant

This is an old thread, but as good a place as any to note that the free sensor replacement programme is now over, unless you bought the camera new in the last 5 years: CCD sensors of the Leica M9 / M9-P / M Monochrom and M-E camera models // 2017 // Global // Leica News // World of Leica - Leica Camera AG I wouldn't buy an M9/ME now without confirmation that the new version of the sensor was already fitted.

Thanks Shun. Looks excellent. Finally a well-balanced all-purpose successor to the D700 that's fast enough for sports and with state of the art AF, but with resolution to burn. Rather eye-watering price in the UK (£800 more than the D810 at launch), though of course we have the weak pound after the EU referendum to thank for much of that. The cynic in me wonders if the new grip design that needs an expensive battery and charger rather than just AAs to boost the framerate was an engineering or a marketing decision, but the base 7fps is still very impressive for the number of pixels this thing has to process. The tilt screen will be handy and full width 4K is very welcome. Edit: I wonder if an 3rd party 8AA grip can be made to give 9fps? Of course Nikon might lock out the highest framerate unless an authorised battery is connected.

Seconded. I also have an old but very similar version of that Gossen - slim and light with a large and very clear LCD display. The slide-off incident dome is on the top side at 90 degrees to the display, which some people may not like, but the reading locks until you press the metering button again, so it's not a problem for me. They also make a 'pro' version with the dome on the front at the top, which adds to the size (and price). My other meter is Weston II picked up at a camera fair, so old that you have to set the film speed by Weston's own scale, one notch down on the dial (1/3 stop) from the modern ISO rating (80 rather than 100, or 320 rather than 400). Surprisingly, it still reads close to the Gossen - I don't know its service history, but the cells in the older meters were supposedly better sealed, and seem to have outlasted those in much more recent models. It's fun but much more fiddly to use than the Gossen - the lettering is tiny, the needle reading has to be transferred manually to the dial, you need to flip out a baffle to access the high sensitivity range, and in this model the optional invercone needs to be used in combination with a special ND filter in bright light! But as with other analogue dial meters, it's nice that you can see all the 'correct' aperture/shutter speed combinations at a glance.

Nikon is emphasising both speed and resolution in their hints about the D850, and its apparent ability to capture 4K 16:9 frames for the teaser video implies a higher resolution sensor than the D810. It therefore seems likely that this camera will give you the best of both worlds in an FX body. If you're not in a hurry, I would do as Wouter suggests. If the pre-anouncement to release timetable is similar to the D5, we might expect to know the specs by the Autumn and see it shipping this Winter.