michael_b._elmer

Battery?

As mentioned by others PS7 can't do your job. Adobe PS Elements 4 (+ the latest raw update from adobe.com) is the best solution to your problem in my experience, unless you really need the features of PS CS2.

Ooops - I made a mistake in the penultimate paragraph. I meant to say: A new Wide-angle Tri-Elmar should be a combined 21, 24 and 28 mm lens giving cropped pictures in the MD's viewfinder of 28, 32 and 38 mm.

 

But the design of this new wideangle lens waits to be seen. It will be interesting, anyway.

Thank you Lucien,

 

You are normally well informed and I take your post as a confirmation of what I consider to be logical thinking, cf. my ideas on this earlier thread:

 

http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00FNGe

 

I hope Leica will avoid confusion with 3 different frames together (21, 28 and 90 mm) and leave out a frameline for the 90 mm lens on the 0.72 version, so that only frames for the 21 and 28 mm lenses will be paired).

 

Logically, the new Wide-angle Tri-Elmar should in my view be a 24, 28 and 35 mm lens giving cropped pictures on the Md corresponding to 32, 38 and 50 mm).

 

A new lens of 16 mm length sounds nice, but perhaps not realistic! Let's see.

I am not sure, but I think you have formulated a false problem. Every lens can focus close up if you use a collar, a close up attachment like the DR goggles, a Visolex or similar device. The problem lies in the viewfinder and rangefinder of the camera and in the parallax problem. Thus, lenses of different focal lengths have different closest focussing distances.

Leica produced a light box around 10-15 years ago. I have never seen one offered for sale. Leica's loupe (5x) is great.

Evolution is an ongoing process that has no beginning and no ending.

 

In a not too distant future, digital M's, R's and D's may have a resolution of 1 GP from a full frame sensor with 256 bits pr color channel, wireless transfer, built in telephone, dictaphone, calculator, and mp3 player as well as a large screen and the newest dolby digital sound system, all of which would allow you to talk to your mother in law, see the latest movie a n d at the same time take wonderful pictures that can be wirelessly reproduced in amazing colours on a 16 x 9 m screen in your living room when you have finished with the movie.

 

Until then the DMR, the digital M to be presented in September (?) and the new Leica D based on the 4:3 system (will they call it Leica D3?) will (have to) suffice very well for me.

Michael, could you please provide a reference to the newspaper.

 

It could perhaps be seen as good news if Leica were to open an internet shop with its products at reduced prices. This is, however, not the way to sell a highly branded luxury product, where buyers expect product presentation in shops with well trained staff and excellent service.

 

Just look at BMW - they know how to sell expensive high quality luxury products. BMW could not sell without the highly branded quality distribution and service shops.

 

What Leica may wish is not to sell at reduced prices but to sell at the highest possible price and to keep as much of the profit as possible for themselves.

 

If that is to be done by refusing delivery to Leicas present distributors such as Martin Meister in Hamburg (LeicaBeiMeister), then Leica would really face a competition law problem.

 

So, probably, what Leica will do is to sell directly to the shops without intermediary distributors and importers, just like BMW now does.

 

I would be very interested to see the article or a link or reference thereto.

Leica offers to rebuild older 180/2.8 APO lenses to take the 1,4 apo-extender. I don't know the price.

Different M, R, C and D Leicas plus one Minox tlx spie camera. My analogue cameras, however, are mostly out of use now.

LFI3/2006 has appeared and contains an interview with Marius

Eschweiler, Leica Camera System AG.

 

Leica will offer lenses for the 4/3 standard (cf. earlier threads on

the D-Vario-Elmarit 2.8-3.5/14-50 mm Asph) and is working on a Leica

Camera in the framework of the cooperation with Panasonic.

 

The M and R systems will continue to stay in the front of the

product fortefolio, and, as I understand Dr. Eschweiler, the D

System, based on the open 4/3 standard, will become the successor to

the Digilux 2 at a time to be announced later.

 

The Digital M will be launched in the autumn, he says.

 

LFI 3/2006 also contains interesting info on macro photo with the

DMR and on sensor sizes and the different optical systems that Leica

offer.

Remove the space between - and camera to make the link work

See http://www.leica-

camera.de/produkte/rsystem/digitalmodul/downloads/index.html

The title of this thread is wrong. It is not the R 50 that is faulty, but the Canon (?) camera that does not work with the 50 Lux!

I should add that the perfect introduction to the M-system can be found in G�nter Osterloh: Leica M - Advanced Photo School, 2005, Lark Books (about 350 pages of extended manual).

The M7 will be a perfect camera to start with. Since you seem to have the necessary means, I suggest you start with the Summilux 50/1.4 asph lens which is the most versatile M-lens.

 

Many people will suggest that you buy something else and cheaper. But if you can afford it why not get the best?

 

The M7 + 50/1.4 asph combo will give you the perfect start with Leica.

Thank you for sharing this beautiful sight with us - it is indeed rare to see such weel kept equipment. Leica could really make bags (one might perhaps say: suitcases) in those days, where everything, including a Mountain Elmar and a Thambar could find a proper place.

What happened to your kitchen and what was in it?

 

Happily your computer was not exposed to water!

 

And happily you and your family was not hurt personally, I hope.

 

Perhaps next time you ruin a camera it might be wise to phone or e-mail Leica in Solms for advice at once before doing anything instead of doing a lot on your own hand and asking the forum for advice after days of unreflected action? (Sorry, hard to resist)

Love the one you're with

What a happy pic!!!

The accessory to the left is a viewfinder for 9 cm, code no SGVOD/12025, value ca. 175 usd or 100 ukl.

 

The exposure meter on the right is a Metraphot, a small dial shaped meter that could be mounted in the accessory shoe, but not coupled. I had one mounted on my Leica III b from 1938, and it functioned quite well. The value depends on whether it functions (correctly), which it probably doesn't anymore, since production took place in the 1930'ies. Probably a good working example would bring around 50 usd or 30 ukl.

 

Prices ar quoted from Hove: Leica International price guide, 8th edition, and the accesory names from Hove: Leica accesory guide, 2nd edition.

Alex, the code name was VOOLA / 16621 (1955). I used that together with the lens hood FISON on the 5 cm ELMAR on my IIIb.

 

In my opinion, there is no reason to decrease the optical performance of Leica lenses by using filters. They cause problems like flare, vignetting, etc., and I fail to see any advantages.

 

Especially, the lenses do not need filters in order to be protected against scratching, since a hood and reasonable attention gives adequate protection.

With "point and shoot" you probably mean that you can take photographs very quickly (can you say "in a snap") without using lots of controls and going through menus of different sorts.

 

It is, in fact, possible to use a m6 as such a point and shoot camera. With the m7's auto feature the m7 must be even easier to use in this way. You must, however, be very well trained in using that camera, and that in practice requires that you mainly shoot with the m6 or m7. If you mix too much between cameras, it is simply not possible to work quickly enough with a manual camera like the m6/7.

 

I used to use my m6 cameras in that way. However, after beginning to use also R-cameras and now also the DMR and the Digilux 2 and D-Lux 2, I have become a little bit too slow with the m6 to use it as a point and shoot in the above sense. If I took only a m6 with me on a holiday for a fortnight, however, I would quickly gain the necessary speed.

 

So, for point and shoot I also have bought the CM and given my wife its predecessor, the Minilux. Both are excellent cameras. The Minilux is the simplest to use, but the CM is more handy and better to keep in a pocket. They both have the same wonderful summarit 40/2.4 lens which is as good as the summicron 40/2.0 lens on my CL. I can give the CM (without zoom) my warmest recommendations.

There's lots of unnecessary and irritating noise on this forum!

 

Abhinava - firstly, only the 'lux 50 asph is in production, so if you want to buy the lens new, that's the lens to go for. Secondly, 25 years of progress in optical design makes the lux 50 asph much more sharp and contrasty than the 50 lux non-asph. Thirdly, since there aren't any used 50 lux asph's on the market, the asph is much more expensive thatn the lux non-asph, which can be bought used at a comparatively reasonable price.

 

This does in no way mean that the 50 lux non-asph isn't a wonderful lens. It certainly is a very sharp lens with excellent contrast and a very good bokeh. In practice, you will hardly notice much difference between pictures taken with the asph, respectively the non-asph lens.

 

I much prefer the Lux non-asph over the Summicron (I have a couple of both lenses). The extra f-stof is most important not only for available light shooting but also for shooting in full daylight, for instance of portraits for which the lux 50 non-asph is an excellent choice.

 

I haven't got the lux asph yet and no personal experience with that lens.

 

When you use a big sum of money to buy a Leica camera or lens, that camera or lens should be so good that it can be your companion for many years to come. I have, accordingly, learned to always buy the latest and best Leica equipment. For that reason, if I were to buy 50/1.4 lens to day, I would not hesitate to choose the 50 lux asph instead of the lux 50 non asph. Choosing the asph will probably make your investment more safe for the future.

sorry, there's a misprint in the last line - read: the 90 Apo-Asph R