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<p> I'm a Leica film guy normally, natural light and all that so I'm ignorant. For some family group portraits I'm going to do I need more light and high shutter speeds. Although I'd like to develop my knowledge of single speedlight and umbrella type lighting for the film camera, I will be using an Olympus E510 dslr for photographing these family groups and I'm expecting some weeks of learning and viewing of the picture taken will be a great teaching aid and the lessons I learn can be applied more generally. I think I want to buy a single reflective umbrella and stand and fire a good speed light type thing into it - I want to help out natural light. I think.<br>
Which flashgun (as I said I'm ignorant)?<br>
does a dslr and an M6 t/l have different requirements. I think I understand the basics and I reckon a high power flash is the thing.</p>
<p>Please respond, and don't worry - you cannot underestimate my ignorance. </p>
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<p>The summicron is slightly wobbly on my M6 ttl and when I remove it and look at the back of the lens the mounting end of the lens, the circular plate that surrounds the brass mount seems loose. It has about 6 little screws and I can move the ring distinctly where it should be held tight by the screws. That is all that is wrong. I've put a lot of money into Leica servicing and I will, in time get it serviced again. Is it pretty straightforward to just try tightening the screws? I mean the lens isn't going to crumble into its constituent part is it? </p>
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<p>I'm 56. If I shoot my 30 or so rolls a year till I'm 76, thats 600 rolls - £6000 of Velvia, developed and scanned. I already have the scanner. I guess I'm going to look seriously at some bulk buying and refrigeration. 76? I'll be lucky, so I see a saving there. <br>
I'm neither one thing or the other. I love my camera, the idea of it becoming useless would be painful. I suspect there'll be more important things becoming useless though - such as parts of my body - so I'll try to keep my chin up. I don't know about the technology much, but I know what an iphone can do and its sufficient to suggest a serious reevaluation of why anyone would ever buy a fancy camera for happy snaps. </p>
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<p>Hmmm.</p>
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<p>That's nuts!</p>
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<p>Exactly what is that camera on the cover, a Contax?</p>
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<p ><a href="../photodb/user?user_id=375598">Eric Friedemann</a> <a href="../member-status-icons"></a>, Feb 14, 2011; 09:23 a.m.</p>
<p>As you have four options, the choice you face is not a "dilemma"- a problem with two possible solutions.</p>
<p>I can't let this beautiful post go unnoticed. Help in the precise use of language is an adornment to any thread. In England we'd describe this remark as 'smart arse'. But in a good way. <br>
My question: what do you call the choice where there are four options?<br>
Stick with the 35- 50 range you like. So 28 - 35. If you're new to rangefinders, keep it simple, the first ten years are quite difficult. </p>
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<p>Stop slacking and get more Filmtowns done :)</p>
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<p>Thanks all. In fact it is Voigtlander or maybe Zeiss I'm going with - I have 35 and 50 summicrons on my M6 and I can't see myself buying another Leica lens. I will be checking out the X100 when its out. </p>
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<p>Sorry, but I have difficulty keeping up with these things.</p>
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<p>I expect the M9 is Leica's farewell to the M System; an honourable discharge of the promise of retro compatability and a signing off of the obligations to M users. I'd love one and will probably never have one. For Leica's good, surely they can support and enhance the M9 through firmware upgrades and move on - hopefully to distinctive simple digital cameras of beauty and quality but also autofocus and other up to date automatizations. </p>
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<p>and Ralph Jensen, so generous.</p>
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<p>Thanks to the writer and the poster, a fun and interesting read. The analysis seems sound: the M9 surely honours - but can conclude - the M series and Leica can pretty graciously relinquish its responsibility to us M series devotees. None of those innovations interest me, but surely now Leica can make new digital cameras. Jelly bean and Dove soap shapes? Bring them on! My M/35 & Velvia is beside me; don't worry about my custom. </p>
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<p>anyone know anywhere I can get one?</p>
<p>US postage costs horrendous.</p>
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<p>You did great for a first outing. In focus and everything.</p>
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<p>can you link to any other threads on this kind of jamming; its happened before on my M6 TTL and again I'm finding the thing jamming mid roll. I would love to have a local guy look at it - I can't afford my impeccable servicing record. Also when I considered selling recently, my sheaf of receipts for servicing seemed to matter not one jot.</p>
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<p>Build quality. They are extremely well designed and made. For your kit, you are on the right lines with Domke or Billingham as camera bags, Timbuk2 for anything. Me, I just carry an M6/35mm combination, 'storing' it in the padded inner bag with other lens, meter, film etc. The whole thing fits in one of those Really Useful Boxes (see thorough plastic lidded box) in my house. Then I use the (Hadley Pro) bag for everyday workaday use. Beware getting too big a bag and accept none is perfect including the works of art that can set you back an arm and a leg. </p>
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<p>for your kit, you are on the right lines. Domke or Billingham as camera bags, Timbuk2 for anything. Me, I just carry an M6/35mm combination, 'storing' it in the padded inner bag with other lens, meter, film etc. The whole thing fits in one of those Really Useful Boxes (see thorough plastic lidded box) in my house. Then I use the (Hadley Pro) bag for everyday workaday use. Beware getting too big a bag and accept none is perfect including the works of art that can set you back an arm and a leg. </p>
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<p>I suppose that explains the absence of a Quadrat 3 - the rather nice series of interviews and gallery they were doing</p>
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<p> of interest to those with a desire for a digital M that falls short of actually buying one.</p>
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<p>I find myself agreeably hypnotized by the forum debates but then forget it all. Stuff like this is a find. A wonderful posting, saturated with joy about photography.</p>
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<p>So then. There is an undertow of film vs digital here and also issues to do with people's use of either and I respect those discussions but I have a dilemma that you may be able to help with. I shoot 35mm Velvia - Summicron - Minolta 5400 - Aperture on a Mac; plus a good deal of experience at everything about taking pictures except digital and scanning. I'm fine with the quality of what my Olympus 510 and kit lens gives me and print wise I'll send off to a lab when I have a transparency good enough for a big print. <br>
I'm appalled however by the lack of sharpness in my scanned slides. Colour, tonal range etc is great and the overall look is lovely but everything is soft. The best sharpest photograph I can take (lens wide open, high shutter speed, good exposure and correct subject yields a good sharp scan, but anything less is soft! If this is what I have to expect - a much softer image than my dslr produces routinely - so be it. I can live with it, but is there something else worth trying? I hear the word vuescan - software? Colour negative film instead of transparencies? Are there adjustments on the scanner (which I am really inexperienced with) that could be softening the edges? </p>
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<p>I did wonder about those optech hood hats. Wonder if one will work with the rectangular hood on my summicon </p>
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<p>rery interesting. Not easy to plonk a savage wide angle on my dslr then.</p>
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