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<p>Hi Deepak,<br>

Do contact Subbarayan Prasanna, who posts on PN Classic Manual Cameras forum. He resides in Bangalore and develops his own B/W photos.</p>

<p>John,<br>

If you already have the 105mm f2.5 then you don't need the f1.8, in either 85mm or 105mm. You do not yet own any wide-angle primes or macro lenses...</p>

<p>Relax guys. The overuse of metal is just a Russian engineering trait! Ham-fisted....</p>

<p>I have used the Sterling rolls once. It was sold as a 100 ASA film, but when I developed it the edge number read Ilford 400! So I suspect that Ilford accidentally put the wrong 100 ASA emulsion onto their 400 ASA film stock. They then flogged it to Sterling in India at a discounted price!<br>

What are the filter sizes that you require? Living in Hong Kong I do come across odds and ends quite often.<br>

Indian Customs undoubtedly, can no longer be bothered to open your parcels!</p>

<p>Hi Subbarayan,<br>

Is Sterling an Ilford film which has been re-branded for the Indian market? If you think you want to try a yellow or orange filter for your lenses let me know, as I will be returning to India in September.<br>

I was in Goa for a month this June. Left two days after the monsoon broke. I don't think your Deccan plateau monsoon can compare to the one which smashes into the Konkan coast! How about getting some shots with puddles and umbrellas! Also, you might want to try getting closer for some of your shots. You are standing much too far away. <br>

It's not the gear that counts, it's the attitude. And you Subbarayan, have it in spades. Keep going!</p>

<p>Bela, Why don't you just buy a Sony Alpha body to use with this 135mm 1.8 lens?</p>

<p>I bought two new wide-angle lens for my DX cameras this week. The first one was purchased on Monday, the Voigtlander 20mm f3.5. Spent a day shooting with it in Macau, China, and could'nt be happier with it. Yesterday I bought the Tokina 11-16mm f2.8. Have not tried it yet but I have no doubt that I made the right decision. It is also my first auto-focus lens!<br />Nikon do not make the lens that I need and can afford. I have been using Nikon cameras as my main 35mm camera brand for thirty years, and cannot remember the last new Nikon lens that I bought. These two new "third party" lens would have paid for only one new pro Nikon zoom.</p>

<p>It could well be that Nikon are targeting Iranian soccer moms... I mean that drop screen is just the thing for shooting through a veil.</p>

<p>Soccer moms ? Nope. My guess would be that Nikon is eyeing up the fast emerging Middle-East, South Asia, South - East Asia and China markets. With a combined population of nearly three billion people, who are as eager to make digital images as anyone else in the Western world.... </p>

<p>I think a customised "Divorce" Leica might sell quite well. </p>

<p>Ken,  I do apologize for my overly harsh criticisms. I wish you luck in Yosemite. Stick with film, and hire a guide.  I don't think it's safe to wander around with that much gear. Those bears are all on crack!</p>

<p>Scott, you may have a point there. Then again, there are amateurs, and then there are amateurs...<br>

Ken seems to be all over the shop as regards equipment - 35mm panoramic...35mm digital...medium format film vs digital. None of which he seems very familiar with! By his own admission he has not exposed film in several years, neither has he had many "serious photo shooting opportunities" . He is an absolute beginner at medium format digital, yet now he plans to bring his newly purchased Hasselblad digital back , as his main recording medium for his trip of a lifetime to Yosemite. <br>

It all seems a bit experimental to me.<br>

Please do tell me Scott, how do you rate his chances of making a superb landscape photograph at Yosemite National Park?</p>

<p>Ken,<br>

I think that the chance of you getting a shot in Yosemite, that you would want to enlarge and hang on your wall are low. There is no way that an amateur photographer, even with the best equipment that money can buy, can just show up in the park, take his gear out of it's case and hope to make a great photograph. Photography is not like that. The cameras you have are too sophisticated for that, and yourself, too inexperienced, and with family in tow...<br>

My advice would be this. If you really want to go down the medium format route then hire a photographic assistant who knows Hasselblads and the digital process, as well as knowing the light in Yosemite. Pay them extra so they can drive your rented car for you. This would give you the time to enjoy the scenery, your family and learn about your wonderful cameras. Otherwise, just stick with the Leica and the Xpan.</p>

<p>I have a Tokina 150-500 f5.6 SD zoom which is very sharp and contrasty. I paid about US$400 for it, which would be a fraction of what a Canon zoom in that range would cost. It takes a front filter and a drop-in screw one. Try finding a filter for a Canon telephoto.</p>

The Nikon Pistol Grip. Ideally suited to those born with three arms. Never seen one in actual use, but the brochures usually showed them mated to the old 300mm f4.5 HC telephoto.

The new S2 has very clean lines, almost like some 1950's designer tea kettle. I suppose that the photographers

shooting with one will have to get used to doing arithmetic division in their heads, instead of multiplying focal

lengths? Poor things.

 

Where these beasts sell well will give us a clue to the new world economic order. I predict healthy sales in Russia

and

China.

I broke an Canon adaptall-2 mount once trying to remove it from a 17mm Tamron lens. The FD mount is complex and the linkages can get fouled. I'm usually quite careful with my gear but it happened anyway.

I saw a Russian m39 2x TC yesterday. Talk about a rare beast!

So, you live near Raid! You guys should meet up.

Just to make Melissa's life more difficult I shall recommend MF rangefinders!

 

Mamiya 6 6X6, interchangeable lens

 

Mamiya 7 6X7, interchangeable lens

 

Bronica 645, interchangeable lens

 

Fuji rangefinders, various format and lens

 

Mamiya Universal 6X7 or 6x9, interchangeable lens

 

Good luck with your camera hunting. Hold the camera in your hands and look through the viewfinder. You will know when you have found the "right one"...

I don't have a problem with people turning a profit on the sale of used cameras. However, in this poster's case, clearly there are other "issues" involved...

 

http://www.photo.net/classic-cameras-forum/00QbB7

The poster named "Simon Leung" should be banned from posting here on this forum. He is a classic camera abuser.

Good detective work Raid. It would be great if you could come up with some photos of the camera inside the plane, ready for use. Would it have been set up facing down, in the bomb bay or was there a window of some sort cut into the fuselage.

 

I wonder if the monster is'nt a little radioactive!

It might also be the case Raid, that you have too many lenses, and they are getting gummed up from lack of use!

 

I would include myself in that group of photographers too. I think we ought to practise with our equipment to a regular schedule, by making up a list of our kit. Just a suggestion, anyway good luck with your Zeiss 85 too...I suppose you could always use it at f1.4 only! It should fit onto a Canon body with an adapter.

The M8 should never have been designed with a removable base plate to begin with. What were the designers thinking? All that was required was a lockable hatch on the baseplate for the memory card.