jordi_rosales

After the Webster's dictionary the term durability has to do with aging as well as with sturdiness.---

What about the time durability (aging) of the glues which held together the lens elements ? (canada balsam and the more recent ones)---thank you

-

Pierre, there are so many reasons NOT to use a Leica that it becomes supect.

Leica is specially designed for ostentative, rebels, pedants, elitistic, new richs and so on. If you are not one of them you are still tolerated if you keep it discrete and shoot only when nobody is looking.

-

-

-

A friend of mine has never purchased a refrigerator, because he is always waiting for the newest model. In the meantime he is really unhappy :=))

By the way: my M3 does not fear any M3-2 or M3-3 and so on following each other in closed intervals of few months. The existing newest M's are but a little thing compared with a genuine M3.

Nothing can replace the action of time in a timeless beautiful piece like this.

-

-

Araldite

-

-

José Merino asks hier a simple practical question and all he gets is moral sentences, irony and jokes.

This is a shame.

-

-

Bill,

is your IIIf not rather a IIIg ? with its selftimer on the front side?

what is the difference between the two models besides selftimer?

and why are the prices of IIIg twice or thrice (!) the prices oft the IIIf?

Your page is nice indeed and interesting.

My IIIf/elmar 3,5 (without selftimer) is indeed a compact and beautiful timeless camera which I can put in my pocket without being incomodated.

screw-mounts have indeed a complicated model-name. One has to know the entire "Geschichte der Leitz-Camera" to have some idea.

-

-

Hier it is the question of manipulated/falsified photos.

I ask myself if there is any technical method to establish if a given photo has been manipulated?

Someone could give an opinion?

-

Bruno please, you dont spare that much space when you writte LFI with all letters. This would spare me to ask you: what is LFI?.

This is probably the simplest thing in the world but right now its meaning does not come to my mind.

I am also glad to know that this shutter lag is as little as 140 milliseconds.

So many things have an influence on a given photography that it seems

to me impossible or without significance (insignificant) to define

it only by giving the kind of lens and a couple of data.

There are among others:

Film, paper, shooting time, distance, tripod or free hand, light, air

transparency or opacity, chemical development (many other factors

here)/digital handling�

Hence and consequently: the mere indication for instance �m3,

collapsible so and so�� means to me nothing at all.

when I read on this link "FORGET FILM" I remeber the days where it was claimed: " Forget mechanical whatches" and the days of "forget paper in a paperfree ofice" etc

this kind of forgets seem to be a warranty of eternity for the things to be forgotten...

Thanks Matt for these beautiful images and thanks not less for sharing with us your feeling with the Leica. You describe very well that feeling of beauty, sobriety, craftmanship and fonctionality which caracterizes our prefered photo intrument, specially the m3, which in my opinion can not be equalled to none of the other models, as attractive they can also be. That alone (all these feelings) are a mighty help when you are shoting anything. That gives you that "supplement of soul" you need when creating anything

Congratulations and looking forward for more shots.

It really is no more new if somebody checked the shooter or rotate the rewind knob or looked at it more than twice or put a lens on it.

New is not more new if someone has to declare that it is new and someotherone find immediatly that this is worth a discussion about new or like new.

"Like new" is obviously not "identically new"

Nihil novum sub sole

Todd, as a film + CD user I dont like the expensive Photoshop, and I dont like the less expensive Photo-Shop-Elements.

Compared with these both I like much more the Jasc-Paint-Shop-Pro-8 (or 7) (about the same price as the ps-elements) which I recomend.

In my view Leica versus digital has some analogy with sailboat versus

motorboat.

Wind and silent slowness in a trip for its own sake, versus...

There is no opposition between both ways of navigation . Each one has

their amateurs and justifications.

If they are different things the feeling of using such a beautiful

thing like untemporary m or screwmount leica bodies with their

beautiful and performing lenses has nothing to do with the feeling

using digitals and their infinite variety of everchanging models.

Shooting is a mainly a matter of feeling. And the incarnated soul

needs some kind of eternity when capturing moments and images.

Hi Rob,

Al is right. If both �B� on the meter and on the camera are in face of the respective marks the operation can be done: pushing up the wheel on the meter, sliding it on the camera shoe, and rotating the speed wheel to couple both. As well as sliding off the meter from the camera. If you play a little with the meter you find soon the right way.

Batteries: in Europe the former 625-button cells with 1,35 volts (original voltage of this meter) can still be found.

Have pleasure.

Thanks to John Collier from whom I received useful information.

Hello, melodious leicaphils:

The shutter sound of my screwmount III-f is much louder and

metallic than that of the m3 and m6. Comparatively the m's make

music (specially m3) while the f-III makes noise.

My question: Is it so due to the shutter construction, or could

things be better with a CLA on my III-f ?

Thank you very much for any advice

hello leicameter-friends, may I ask the question with the voltage of a leicameter MR? mine seems to work with mercury cells 1,35 V. these cells are apparently no more on trade. What can be done? how to change the circuitry inside if any need? who would do this ? What other cells use? I know and apologize, the question has already been discused in this forum but I actually would like to know the state of the art today. Perhaps are the appropriate non mercury celles have been developped in the meantime? I have been told the alcaline cells 1,35 on trade sufer rapid degradation, too when not in use. The problem with the 1,35 Volts concern many others applications.

Sorry to ask for information and not being able to give information.

Thank you very much

Hi Wiliam, in Barcelona you have in

carré Pelai 9, entresol,

08001 Barcelona,

the casanova col-lecció,

www.casanovafoto.com

phone 0034 93 317 28 69.

Speak with Carles Moral -

carlesmoral@casanovafoto.com-

they have a number of leicas as well as other brands.

On the other side of this street and housenumber almost vis-à-vis you have another photo business with a floor upstairs plenty of second hand gear also leicas

Mucha suerte

In the newspaper "Le Monde" (Paris) Sunday-Monday 26-27 April 2003 we

find 3 full pages dedicated to Henry Cartier Bressons 95 years.

I note among other interesting things he reveals:

1) Since 1975 he has almost abandoned photography, he does not

actually shot anymore (his camera is "dans le coffre")

2) He likes above all drawing which, he says, implicates the autor

totally and much more than photography

3) Photographies are not to be seen or admired on a Wall but best to

be regarded in a book. Drawings are best to be seen on a wall

In my feeling F1 is perhaps a technical or scientific performance outsides of commercial cosiderations. By doing that Leica wanted to know the limits and add to their name.

F1 is in my op. not needed in available light or existing light photography. Learn and exercise shoting free hand at 1/15 1/8 or less or/and using a tripod and/or setting 1600 or higher whereever possible. Results are often a real surprise.

Jordi

Hi Chris

The calcium-ion in your hard water is soluble as calcium-bicarbonate.

When this calcium ion meet the carbonate ion in sodium carbonate it forms readily calcium carbonate (calcite or marmor) very highly insoluble: white cloud of fine particles).

You have to use distilled water or rain water or demineralised water to get a clean transparent solution.

If you dont have these waters (rain, demineralized or distilled) you could boil your hard tap water in order to precipitate the formed calcium carbonate (higher than 60 °C ist decomposes in CO2 and Calcium carbonate insoluble) let setting the solid formed and use the limpid water above.

Good luck

Amigos, may I remember in this concern a recent historical analogy of how the human soul feels and functions:

some 20 or more years ago in a given little country in central Europe everybody could read and hear "usque ad nauseam" the prediction how surely the mechanical watch was condemned to rapidly desapear because of the triumphant coming of the electronic watch which was much more perfect and exact.

In a very short time almost all traditional mechanical workshops were suddenly closed and trained craftmen jobless.

Some time later the old mechanical watch was re-cognized for his very own value and not as an oposite to the electronic watch.

The old craftmen once jobless were desperately called again and invited to come back with their special instruments they had carefully conserved at home.

A triumphant resurrection which lasts since then.

Since then in this respect nobody has a doubt about things that are not oposite but different.

And no more prophètes de malheur were claiming loud the disparition of something whose own value does not depend on costs or price.

Conclusion: Have no concern if Leica m disapears. The coming back will be triumphant.

Saludos!

Friends, I dont think leica needs "progress" in x years. It has already all I need: quality in all sens of the word, highest possible mechanical-optical simplicity, most direct acces to the simplest photographic parameters... The very progress is to reach intemporality and this is already on the right way since the beginning of leica. Has nothing to do with the years past or to come. The Leica addiction is a manifestation among others and at its level of the deep human need of eternal values.

Regards