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"This was done quickly on a non-calibrated monitor. Had no time to fix all."

 

I thought this was discussion forum, not a news desk working to deadline.

I agree, all the negs on your postings are spotty. If you have to keep apologising for your offerings, why do you still feel the need to share them?

Leica is an incredibly valuable brand. A venture capitalist could buy the business and produce some very nice, but licensed Leica branded consumer digicams built in China sporting the famous Leica name. It could keep Solms as an R and D artisanal set up producing Ms for pro ams and to preserve the reputation that will be behind the red dots on the 300 dollar digicams which could be sold in their millions. Forums like these can give the illusion of consensus when really we represent a microdot of the market. People have heard of Leica but they dont care where it was made.

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Dammit that's true. Some of the best Nocti pictures I have seen were taken in bars. 'Barman, another tap water please!'

Thanks guys, feeling better already. Honestly, these things are so damn expensive it's easy to forget that it's actually a pretty rewarding, worthwhile and healthy hobby. Plenty of friends would blow that much in a couple of months at bars and I kicked that habit years ago. Plus I don't know many bars that'll return 2/3 of what you spent with them after a few years of going there.

BTW I thought about the .85 for the Nocti but it's only available a la carte and I dont want to wait three months. The magnifier is a great idea.

Seb.

Did a really naughty thing today. Having been increasingly annoyed at

wanting b&w film loaded instead of colour and visa versa or being

mid-roll through the wrong speed film, I have been contemplating

another body. Also, having a Nocti and just one body is troublesome

because it usually requires such slow film.

So I go down to the Classic Camera to get a user M6. Forty minutes

later I walk out with a new M7. They threw in a hand grip and it is

going to be the more-or-less-permenant Nocti body. Boy is that lens

high maintenance. So now I have one body for FP4 and one for Kodak

Portra 400NC. The guilt is slowly beginning to wear off.

I live in london and I regularly buy from popflash. Brilliant service

Jeff,

 

I see you rated your FP4 at 200 instead of 125. Is this somethinmg you usually do or just for the test?

Seb

I am going through the last 2 years worth of prints I have, about 2000

odd, and most of them were shot with a 50mm summilux pre asph. I have

to say that I find the character of this lens very beautiful. It's

plenty sharp enough but it also has an ethereal quality wide open.

Colours are beautiful and the B&W has lovely tones, not really

contasty but very pleasing to the eye - I have lots of stuff from

Scotland where the light can be stunning and it is all captured

perfectly. I have since got a Noctilux and was thinking of getting the

ASPH 50 but sorry guys, I've seen the ASPH 50 shots and IMO they have

bred any character right out of itﾖa great scientific achievement,

granted, but too clinical for my tastes. Anyway, just thought I'd

mention it. After the ASPH came out the prices of these lenses have

dropped so it's probably a bit of a bargain too.

I've shot a total of six rolls on two occasions of this stall already. It was as a result of these shoots that I had the idea to try and get the entire stall in for a kind of fold-out in the brochure.

I can only rent a 21mm elmarit, I don't know where to get a 15mm voigtlander to rent, I really don't fancy buying one for just this one shoot.

 

Seb

Richard, by nodal point you mean stay in the same central place and start from left to right

(or right to left) swivelling the lens as needed? Is this better than starting at one end,

taking a front-on shot, then moving down to take another front-on shot til I reach the

end?

Thanks, Seb

Ok,thanks to those who helped out with last night's question. The Xpan

with the 30mm will be wide enough and I can rent one for the weekend,

but it will be too narrow vertically.

My Leica guy in London will rent me a 21 and viewfinder for teh

weekend and I will take any very wide views in segments.

Any advice for this technique?

 

Thanks, Seb.

Here's an idea. They have a Noblex panoramic camera on ebay finishing in 4 hrs. I could probably snag it for 600 dollars plus 50 shipping, use it and then sell it on here in UK for more or less what I paid for it. Is that crazy??

Lutz

 

your widelux shots of the desert are simply fantastic BTW

Looks like I need to rent a widelux, look at this:

 

http://www.pgallery.net/rogerama/folder-5242.html

Hi everyone,

 

I run outdoor markets for a living and I am putting together a

brochure. My best (most photogeneic) market is on a narrow street so I

do not have much room to get entire stalls in teh frame. what is the

best lens/camera setup I can rent to do this job? What about an Xpan?

Will a 15mm view 35mm lens give me wider? Any suggestions? One of the

stalls is 20 meters long but I can only go back about 3 meters. I

wanted to use this whole stall as a pull-out for the brochure and I

want to photograph it in segments then put the image back together.

Any thoughts would be really appreciated.

 

Seb

Terrence, very funny right hand joke. I think I saw some older M models have levers on their dials, you could be onto something there.

I know a lot of people like the stiff action on the shutter speed

dial. But personally, after a few hours shooting, my finger starts

getting sore (poor me). I was wondring if there was a way I could

loosen the action myself� I notice a small screw in the dial. Any

suggestions?

I have checked the reflectimg metring against my camera and they both correspond, so I am pretty confident about the calibration. I think you are all right about the instruction. I have a friend who can show me. Thanks again. Seb

Thanks everyone for all your responses, it feels like I have opened up a whole new dimension to my photography.

 

Cheers Seb

I just got a Seknonic L 308 S Flashmate lightmeter today. I have never

used a lightmeter and I am getting to grips with it. I would just like

to ask some very basic questions.If point my M with Noctilux at a

flat, evenly lit wall I get 125 at f1 from the camera meter but taking

an incident reading with the Sekonic at the wall with the lumisphere

poiting at the camera I get 30 at f1. I realise that this is because

the first reading is of light coming off the wall and the second is of

light coming to the wall from all directions but my question is

this: which reading is the 'right' one?

 

Seb

I need it for really low light because the Noctilux is on my camera most of the time now, so 308 it is...

Thanks Stuart, very helpful response, I will get the Sekonic based on your recommendation.

Seb

Ok, last question, do I get the sekonic or teh gossen digisix. Love the size and price of teh gossen buut I am afraid I will miss out on some must-have features. All I really want to do is meter subjects better to shoot with my MP and learn more about light while I am doing it. I love informal portrait photography, won't be using a flash. Thanks Seb