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Surely I am crazy or simply silly. I owned (and still I own) a

complete Contax range of accessories and lenses when I started to be

interested in Leica M system. Little by little I bought my first M6

and then my first 50 cron. Some viruses later I started to buy a 90,

then a 135, etc. Now I have completed my Leica lenses store having 12

Leica M lenses and a gorgeous of other supplex accessories. Well, now

I am completely bored with the M system and I am still looking for

the perfect sharped breathtaking picture. Sometimes I obtain it with

the gitzo or bogen tripod and with the insuperable Kodakrome 25-64.

But as I am silly or crazy as I stated before, I am not satisfied.

Have I to sell the Contax system for buying a R system in order to

obtain a perfect picture with my slides? Or have I to be recovered?

Please help!

How do you protect your slides when they are stored?

Thamk you for you contribution

Happy new year

Joe

I worked with my 0.85 TTL for several hours at minus 15-18 Celsius without having any problem. I suppose it is due to the film: Fuji, in certain condition, is not so sure as Kodak (on the M7 for example!)

Happy new year

Joe

Believe it or not, folks, but this is the true: I was said that the 21 mmasph is not as sharp as the 24 asph. Well, it may be, but it depends on the situation. I notices that the 24 is a waonderful lens that cannot miss in your stable; taht is so that I use it quite as my normal lens! But what about the 21? Well, the new 21 is able to carve the reality in to your eyes even if this does not exist: some days ago I was shhoting a couple of statue into a dark church; when I controlled the slides, I was seeing that those staues were more delineated, and had more bodiness (corporeity)of what they had. I called a friend of mine to check with me first the sledes and then the original statue. He was really impressed but the difference: In a very dark situation the 21 asph was able to read what the uman eye is not, to separete che colours as our nature cannot, to give mass to marble statues that were soft and mooly. Of course the photoes were shot with the tripod and for 1 second. But this was enough for giving what the human eye cannot believe exists! The same experience I did with a set of night picture oround the town. At 11 p.m. (!!!) the 50 summicron and the 24 were able to read the different scale of the green colours of the trees alongside a river within the time of 4/5 seconds! It seemd those photoes have been taken at 12 a.m. These are the Leica lenses and I have also Zeiss lenses but with them, well folks, it is all onother story.

Joe

Why not a 24 asph? When you are in the interior of a church, how can you get a shot without a wideangle?

Moreover, for "american portraits" a 75 or a 90 is a must, do you agree? But if you are looking just for two lenses, I would have the 75/1,4 and the 35 asph/1,4. By Joe

As stated if you want a polariser for you meek Leica, you have either

the 13356, which is suitable only for the 39/46-49 lenses or the

14286 ring for the tri elmar or for the 135/3,4 Apo. What about the

55 lenses (21 asph, 24 asph, 90 AA) and what for the E60 lenses (50/1

and 75/1,4)?

There was, once upon a time, a goldsmith in the States who forged

gorgeus rings suitable for these "glasses", but now a terrible

malediction has blocked the production of the magic rings. Up to,

have we to wait for knight who will be able to free us from this

terrible fate? Where is the Lord of rings gone?

Joe

What kind of filter do you use with the 21 and or with the 24? A

normal B+W filter, a Leica filter or a B+W Slim filter?

Thank for your kindly answers

Joe

Help! Please!

I've bought recently a quite new 21 asph. with caps, and... and...

but I have not the papers and the box. Where in the wolrd can I have

them? Thank you

P.S without them I can sleep as well, but with them I sleep better.

Joe

Hi people!

In these days I have been attaching by strange and unaccustumed

thoughts! I am not on the border line of committing suicide, but...

have a strong doubt. I have a 24 asph (wonderful lens!) and I am

getting a VC 15mm these days, meanwhile I was offered e like new

Leica 21 asph at a bargain price. Strictly speaking what can you

suggest me, to buy or not to buy it? Conseder that, anyway, I will

buy the 15mm, because I've just ordered it.

Many thanks for you compasionate answers.

Joe

The lens you haven't!

Joe

of course! For a 50 mm about the 10% of the image comes into the negative from outside... and moreover it depends on the inclination of the camera during the shooting. There is a marvellous explanation about this point in Osterloch's book.

Joe

Please correct tha vocabulary! Grey market = trade of stolen stuff. Parallel market = trade of things with different price because of the difference in Vat, or taxes.

COnseder that an official dealer add something for an extended warranty and for the cost of the reparation and so on; on the contrary in the parallel market there is no question about things like these. For example a 35 summilux 1,4 may cost 2.500 Euros or 2.200 Euros here in Italy... and it is not stolen!

Joe

but do you know we have in italian a mervellous translaction ot this book?

A. Valalrdi, 1991: Leica M alta scuola di fotografia

Joe

(1) Do not use the old 21 mm/4 or so. It does not fit the M6!

(2) The quality lens of the 24 as. is unbeatable!

(3) The single viewfinder is the best solution

(4) In the future, if you need a larger wide angle, why do not buy

the 15 Voigtlander? By Joe

When you shoot in a pubblic space, during a demonstration or a

pubblic event, there is no problem with the subjetcs you shoot.

Unless they are the principle and main subjetc of the photo, but if

you shoot monumetns there is no problem at all. By Joe

Yes, it is so! I've a 35 asph 1,4 as well, and mine works with the

same quality effect at 1,4. Suprised? It is a Leica!

By Joe, Happy Easter

No, no, no!!! It is strctly reccomanded not to use filters on the

Noctilux!!!! Read the «zittell» that goes with the lens! Please do

not scratcht a lens like that! The surface of the last lens is not a

normal surface like other lenses. I beg your heartly attention:

please save the noctilux from their dealt penalty!

Do not let me cry for a crime like this, please! Joe

Silver version is fine, but have you ever considered how poetic

sounds an old black Leica, very, very used?

That is a true Leica, because it has been used for what it was

created! And the black colour is the sign of the professional use of

the camera.

Joe

Do you think that for a Leica M is strictly necessary the 21 mm viewfinder when I have the 24 mm viewfinder?

With the 21 mm asph. may I use the 24 viewfinder?

Obviusly..... I have to consider the extra lines...

Thanks,

Joe

Can I use the 21 SA 3,4 M on my Leica M6? Without problem?

Thanks, Joe

Sirs,

please, we are gentlemen, aren't we?

Every one has the right to express his/her own opinion and the duty

to compose his/her style in a civil way!

In my humble opinion, I think the market will give the answer. But

not only the market, the real use of the gear... after one or two

years from the issue of the new camera.

All the best, Joe

If you were me... what would you buy? I have a set of Leicas M and lenses + flash unit and a gitzo 1126 for travelling services. Now I have an opprtunity to buy a Billingham bag (335) for only 180 �uro. You know the bag! But I was keen on buying a Domke. What can you suggest me?

Many thanks for your simpathy.

Joe.

Hi,

In my opinion, it is not question of «better» or «not better». The

two lenses have a different personality! The 90/2 is smoother and

more apt for the portrait. Sweet and gentle with a particulary bokeh

effect that is nont com,prable with other lenses! The 90/2,8 is

harsher, with more definition and a particular crisp rendition;

tipical for the normal tle use: landascape, architecture, and so on.

It depends on the use you want to. I personaly have the two 90/2 asph

and not, and their use is for different porpouse. By, Joe

Alfie,

I have a Contax Zeiss system with some lenses(18mm; 28; 50/1,4;

85/1,4; 100/2; 135/2,8; 135/2; 200/3,4), but after a while I

accrossed the road and started to shot with Leica M system. Why? It

is simple, and you know the why. Actualy, I ought to say that up to

135 mm Leica is better and useful, but after 135 mm you need a SRL.

And Contax is the best. Only with the 21mm Contax is superior to

Leica 21 SA and 21 pre aspherical. The new asperical 21 mm is better

at the corners, but the old 21 mm of Contax is still better at the

center at every aperture. The difference is not the price (even with

Nikon or Canon at a certain level the prices are quite equal!!!!) but

the weight. With a M system you can shot without problem everywhere

and with every condition of light. The G system? Not bad, for the

lenses, but not reliable for the autofocus of the cameras. If you

want to have a SRL and you cannot afford a Leica system, buy Contax,

but ib my opinion only if you want top quality, you need to buy the

100/2 and the 135/2, but for the 180 or 280 Leica is the best of the

best in the SRL system, For the normal and the wide angles the new M

system lenses are winner all over the line!