hadji_singh

I agree with Glenn. He's a great photographer.

Also, his name is Riboud, not Reboud.

<i>Costs fifty dollars </i>

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Now, you're <b>really</b> dreaming. Personally, I wouldn't mind

some sort of tri- or bi-elmar but with wider coverage, say 21/24,

or a 15/21/24. That would be nice!

I should add that I find the accusations against me funny,

because I actually prefer BW over color. I have no problems with

BW. At any rate, I will continue with my narrow-mindness and

crotch-grabbing...

<i>Same comment one hears from uneducated, narrow minded,

one side of the brained, crotch grabing</i>

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So now I'm uneducated and narrow minded? Hmm. I never said

BW photography didn't have merits. It certainly does. There are

situations where I use BW. There are situations where I use

color. I choose what is appropriate (for any number of given

artistic/technical reasons). Look closer at my comments, Marc.

Reread. Ted says that only BW can "capture the soul" and that

color only captures "the clothes". If anything, that kind of

statement is narrow-minded. Statements like Ted's (or to say

that "color is the medium of the masses") implies that color has

no merit artistically and that to be a true artist you have to shoot

in BW. Who's grabbing their crotch now?

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In the end, it's not BW or color that allows you to "capture the

soul" it's who's behind the camera. I stand behind that. It's a

fallacy to think that if you take pictures in BW, you're inherently

better than someone who takes pictures in color. That is

artsy-fartsy. Cause a crap picture is still crap -- whether its in

color or BW.

<i>The smartest think Leica could do is team up with Cosina

and make Leitz versions of the 12/5.6, 15/4/5, 21/4, 25/4

(RF-coupled) and 28/3.5. Leitz optical tweeking and build quality

for light and not too expensive (but marginally costlier than VC)

Voigtlander based lenses. </i>

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Alex, great idea, but let's not kid ourselves. If Leica were to make

these lenses they would be at least four times more expensive --

and probably not significantly better optically.

Ooops. I can't read. Noah already mentioned the Mamiya 7II.

Sorry.

Just to confuse you further...

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If you're looking at medium format, have you considered a

Mamiya 7II and a couple of lenses? It's like a Leica on steroids.

Huge negative, wonderful lenses, portable, nice ergonomics,

and great viewfinder/rangefinder.

Olivier. Oh, thank you for setting me straight. I see the errors of

my ways. If only I were more polite and insightful and wise as

you. I'm glad someone is watching out for the forum and making

sure everyone is playing nice.

<p>

I still stand by my statement. Black and white capturing the soul?

Whatever. Statement's like Ted's (or whoever said it) are

meaningless. Color or BW? One is not necessarily better than

the other (I work with both). Each come with their own set of

problems, both technically and formally. But to say that one is

inherently better than the other is a bunch of <b><i>artsy

fartsy</b></i> nonsense. Who's behind the viewfinder is more

crucial.

<i>When tou take a color photograph, you capture that persons

clothes. when you shoot in B&W, you capture his/her

soul.</i><p>

This is such artsy-fartsy nonsense. These same people

probably believe in the mythical Leica mystique also.

I should add to Andrew's method, that I don't even think it's even

necessary to open the back door (that also helps keep crap from

getting on the shutter curtain).

I've never had a problem with the bottom loading, either in terms

of speed or misloads. Perhaps some people don't like the

bottom loading because they are doing it wrong. I remember

someone posting here once that he used a

<b><i>paperclip</i></b> when loading his M6. Sheesh. I've seen

people spend minutes and minutes loading their cameras,

being very anal -- when in theory it should take 30 sec or less.

<p>

Andrew Nemeth gives a very good <a

href="http://www.nemeng.com/leica/000b.shtml">primer on how

to quickly and properly load the M cameras</a> on his website. I

think if you do any more than what he outlines, then you're

spending too much time on it.

<i>Wierd, I saw a guy in the same area on Sunday, but this guy

wasn't slim, and had two M cameras.</i> Er... there are eight

million people in this city. Quite a few of them happen to be Leica

owners. So it's not so weird to see <i>more than one</i> Leica

out on the street.

Where's the truck? Was this taken with a P&S camera?

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Seriously, though. It's pretty sad that people would send you

viruses because of pictures you posted. I guess they would

prefer you take "nice" photos. Some people don't have a life.

Max, Glenn Travis was one who posted the photo of the French

restaurant.

Rob, didn't you once show us an underexposed picture of a cow

next to a truck? Maybe my memory is failing me.

Well, I don't know about the "feature" part. What I do know is that

if I have a flash mounted on my M4-P or M6, pushing the shutter

release will fire the flash (regardless of whether or not the

shutter is cocked). I don't use flash much, so I never really gave it

much thought. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but this does

NOT happen on the M6TTL or M7?

The flash firing without the shutter cocked is a "feature". This

happens on my M4-P and M6 (non TTL).

I've been lurking on this site for a while. Often, it's not even worth

my time to say anything -- it would just add to the noise. You can

learn a lot by keeping your mouth shut.

<p>

I think it's one thing to stand up for your beliefs, however, it's

another to pointlessly clutter up multiple threads. For example,

your comment in Ralph Barker's thread was pointless. He had

nothing to do with this thread. When you start doing stuff like that

you start looking like the other crackpots that show up every few

months on this site.

Yawn... a lot of hot air in this and other threads from Yossi.

Yossi's been butting heads in this and other threads with Rob

and Jeff. Well, as anyone who's been reading this site for a while

will know, both Jeff and Rob can back up what they say -- they

post photos regularly and often. I don't always agree with them,

but I respect them cause they're actually out there shooting. You?

Your spelling does resemble a certain Travis that was here for a

while...