fabio b

<p>Hello, Michael<br>

<br />It seems like a theodolite accessory camera, from a past world before digital, of no use in today workflow. for the 100 usd told, I believe i may buy it. I don't think i'll never to be able to use it, but i'm fond of cameras and of any strange mechanical device. please tell me what you think to do.<br />regards, <br>

Fabio <br>

fboz@libero.it</p>

<p>nice idea, really elegant way to take pictures. paisano's one is nice, but the cat pic is tecnically more difficult to to your way, and beautifully rendered. i'll follow your idea.<br>

regards,<br>

fabio</p>

<p>Nadine,<br>

I'm not a pro, too, as others writing to help you. In the same mood of the guys here, i have a question: are you sure the best thing to do is discussing here? Making sure you don't want to hide anything to your clients, in this way they can have any detail of the whole mess.<br>

good luck,<br>

Fabio</p>

<p>Dave is perfectly clear.<br>

To add my 5c, what is possible, in a general way, is using SRL lenses on RF bodies, with adaptors - because flange to film distance is higher in SRLs, making room for the adapter ring. The inverse is impossible - the adapter would optically compensate for a negative leght.<br>

The solution is buying a M42 Pentax lens: they are cheap today, and often nice ones.</p>

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aah - shame on you - uv curing harden plastics, but cannot de-yellow glass lenses.

if i can remember correctly that voigt guys made yellow lenses for bw - color pics was in the future. and some strange glass had some radioactivity, but bessas one - maybe some old m42 pentax, or so.

 

take care,

fabio

i tend to disagree: transforming a .95 tv in a useful lens (adding the focus cam) could be expensive and poorly made, in my limited experience. needs to be told, in my poor noct potography, most of shots are at infinity, and every one knows a .95 (or 1.0, or 1.2) is a difficult way to have sharp in focus objecs in full sun - go trying in almost total darkness, and look at he prints. al k. observation on tha optical signature is, as expected, extremely correct, and imho the only reason to have one of thse monster. btw: i'll like to buy one, if someone sells

imho, a canon 50mm would be a nice choice. a 1.8/50 is relatively cheap, not as a jupiter, but far cheaper than every summi-leica. i have one, and i'm sure it's one of the nicest 50s i have used. another chance is the cv 2.5/50, or the same made 2.5/35. sorry to tell, but i strongly believe the best way to take pics is trade the IIIb for a bessa r (r2 better).

hey, jerry: he must have had a 600mm for the girl legs

who's mario? one of the famous bros - or the hidden notorious second identity of m v?

 

and, please, it is allowd internal camera meter or we need to use ext selenium cell meter? :P

hey, maria v, sweetie, were are we supposed to post?

 

bm, i'm not considering leica hw as an absolute issue: hope you'll agree old pentaxes are admitted as nikon film cameras needs too

hmm. everyway i continue dont understanding why posting this - maybe jk is right

well, i'm almost sure we all are envying you - for the Brooks-Plaubel Veriwide 100, for havin it from Al Kaplan, a valuable never-seen-in-person frien of all us. and for your magic world pictures from strange cameras.

another girl would have used an swc, but not you.

I was at the Genova G8 in 2001. Dont know the UK police, but in Italy the worst thing that can happen you is a lot more than boring: in facts they know the way to keep your attention well up.

 

My 2cents are: always figure an escape way if the situation is coming difficult, take with you a camera you can loose and keep in mind that people doing illegal acts often dislike to be on a picture. And people who know they'll be doing somethig illegal later dislike it even more, also if they are police officers.

nice to see your first leica photo, maria, and nice from them to made an hp for you. :-)

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i'm sure a pow of last year (2004) was taken on a direct positive bw film - someting of a museum view. i can't remember exactky, but some comments was on the film.

all times i do this upload wrong - sorry.

the right one is this.

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Hum, if one decides to buy a Canon 7, best thing is to buy a 7s, with the accessory shoe, to clip on a meter, and a Canon lens. I've a 50/1.8, and it's really a good and no expensive lens. Imho, a old Canon RF is no more a useful camera: too much parts aging: viewfinder, shutter assembly, and so.

In facts, i'm planning to sell my 7 and VT, to buy a more modern RF, but i dislike Leicas, and Konicas are really too costly for me.

nice pics, david - as someone told before, the best way to let us know your work is putting them in some folder in your workspace

 

if i have correctly understand, here forums are not used to promote someone own work, but rather to put in view something intresting all of us. sorry for my english

Andrew, your is nice - maybe some some scanning problem, causing it seem so washed?

obvious: the whole thing needs to cost half than a m6 - that is 1K?

my humble opinion:

there is surely a space between bessas and leicas, free for a-bettr-than-m6 camera - think about a canon7, with steel foil shutter, plus reliable ttl metering, plus lightweight magnesium ot titanium body, plus m-mount, plus integrated silent motor drive - and please an accessory shoe - better than a konica rf, that has that noisy copal shutter

 

 

to be understand: i have a canon 7 and a VT one, plus a bessa r, and a contax g too - with little integration work, you can have a fantastic camera. leicas are soo expensive, and loading film is really a pain

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