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Hi Neil

 

Is that Ivor from Classic Camera? If so, good on him. Nice man.

Hi

 

I haven't been around much and am a bit out of the loop when it comes to the

digital rollercoaster.

I'm a rangefinder user and want a small digital camera to carry about with me. I

was thinking of the Digital Leica/panasonic camera and I know the Ricoh GRD was

quite good last year but what's around now that's good. I want something I can

access manual controls with easily.

 

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

Seb

The other day I was browsing through an old album given to me by my mother. In a pocket at the back were a couple of strips of developed slide film. I had them printed at teh lab and received the most wonderful images from 1976 of my family and their friends and me as a small boy. It got me thinking that could never happen with digital. Could we really take a thirty-year old digi camera or memory card and even see the images let alone get them printed?

I use an eveready case in place of a camera bag while travelling. It protects the camera beautifully and when I get to my destination I take off the two parts of the case and use it normally.

This is just a big up to Andy at the oft maligned Classic Camera in London. I

ordered an A la Carte MP from him some months ago and it seems Leica are well

behind on their manufacturing - hand made camera so I'm not really complaining.

I mentioned I was going to Bilbao for few days and did he have an old beater M6

he could lend me and he immidiately offered me his own A la Carte MP from his

own collection at home. Same config as mine - black chrome, old fashioned

vulkanite M6/7 rewind knob.

Anyway, nice service I thought.

 

Seb

Ian

 

True, but the vat on the selling price is less than on the new purchase price (I think) But the vat thing was more self-justification rather than any hard financial facts. I will take a hit on the sale whatever way I look at it.

Just to add...I took this oportunity to clean out my collection and have my desert island Leica outfit. I am now left with an MP, a 50ASPH and a 28 summicron. I think I will be quite happy with these.

 

Seb

Asher

 

I gave tried many times to shoot with right eye but have never succeeded. My left eye seems to be too dominant. Also, I have grown used to setting my own shutter speed in the MP - using the led dot as a guide and then over or under exposing as I see fit and the manual mode on the M7 doesn't feel as instinctive as it does with the MP. Yes, I know about the exposure lock function on the M7 but that is dependant on what light is available.

Gary

 

I meant final for the year! Maybe definitely.

Actually, it's a .72 so I can use my 28. But the 50mm frameline comes up on it's own.

I am sick of my M7 and that damn blinking led in the viewfinder. This is my

third M7 and all but the first have had this problem (wish I hadn't swapped it

for an MP) Sent it back to Leica and because the fault is intermittent it always

comes back 'no fault found'.

I have since realised that the blinking is activated when my nose presses

against the ISO dial on the back, which is a very boring design fault on a 2200

GBP camera. Because I am vat registered I can sell the camera at my local shop

on commission and recoup most of my dough.

Which is what I did. While there, I ordered my final ever film camera - an a la

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In light of the increased new price of this lens, how much does a used 3rd gen

Nocti go for in Europe these days?

 

Seb

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sorry wrong size

Took the 28 summicron as my only lens on a week long trip to France. Great

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Ok,

Maybe it was a slight case of Leica evangelism. But I still think that a quiet shutter, small, unobstrusive body and great quality fast lenses make for a pretty unbeatable candid portrait combo.

Seb

I used Tri-x film

Keith - I was trying to put accross the fact that having fantastic quality lenses in a small and therefore unobtrusive package with a whisper-quiet shutter enabaled me to get some lovely spur-of-the-moment shots in a way that a large, modern SLR, in my case, probably could not.

 

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I recently went to Los Angeles to visit an old friend and his family. While

there I took some shots of him and his kids. Nothing staged, I just picked up my

camera at moments when I saw something that looked promising. Now, these are

just snaps but they are high quality snaps, and it occured to me that I could

not have achieved these with any other camera on the market. My M7, with it's AE

and 50 pre asph summilux and 28 summicron is the best point and shoot camera

ever made. I didn't even use exposure lock- just trusted the meter and snapped away.

Now my friends have some lovely shots of their kids and hopefully they will

forget that my entire visit consisted of me walking around all day in my

underwear and eating all their food!

 

Seb.<div></div>

Hi

 

I'm off to LA next week and was hoping to take advantage of the absurdly low

pound dollar exchange rate to buy some used gear. Can anyone recommend some places?

 

Thanks Seb

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