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I have to say I've always found 'Banksey' a bit overrated, there are quite a few more street artist's in London who blow him out of the water. He's just happend to catch the eye of Damion Hurst's publacist.

Here is a photo, taken with a motorolla v3 cell phone of a non Banksy stensil.

Go with the 50mm and get in close wit worked for Dorothea Lange.

In London the police use close channel digital communication. If yu hack into it and you are traced you can be arrested under the anti terrorism laws.

After reading this I did the same with my CM and tripod with a test to look at. My one is fine. So it must be a fault, you will have to get it seen too.

I'd go right back to the American Civil war, which was the first to be really photographed.

Vietnam changed the way the US millitry treat reporters and and photographers. Up untill then they would invite them in and help as much as they could. But when the photos and reports were so negative of the Vieatnam way a firmer hand was taken. Now in Iraq the reporters are breifed away from the troops, and useally kept together and out of the front line.

I think the Digital M is always going to be tricky, they want to get it right first time. They will get there. I would suspect though that the first version will be the Digital CM, and then we will get the full Digital M.

 

Digital R back's will go like hot cakes. R's are the real camera of choice for fasion and other studio photographers. But magazine editiers prefer digital. With the R back you have the best of both world's. I know one guy who uses a D70 for Magazine shots and his R9 for book's calanders and so on.

I find the VF on the CM great. But that is just me. Have you tried focusing it with the little wheel to the left, that might help. If not you might have to take it back to the dealer.

Mostly I get 38 shots on a film of which 20 will be street ones. Of those probably about three will be any good.

I think that is the way it is going. I like the idea of a mechanical camera. The foucus indecator is a must, and a rubber ring for the eye peice, which you can get somewhere.

Take me a while to save up for one though, I've a holiday to pay for and a doubling of the cost of my trip to work to overcome after Xmas :(

Ilford XP-2 Super 400.

Thanks for this link Alan. If I get a M3 I can probably save half the cost of the CLA by getting one where the vulcanite is chipped around the lens mounting, quite common. Then for ?20 rougly get it looking like new.

Dose anyone know where I could get a body cap for an OM30?

The cover that covers the mirror and so on when the lens is removed.

Dose this count it was taken a while ago but due to holidays I only got it developed Wednesday.

It's simple but I like it. More becouse I like the building.<div></div>

Oh thre is nothing scary about Tracy Emin, apart from when she has her wooden teeth in!

But wow a Silk Screen, when I was in the US recently one of her's was on display in an exhibit in the Warhol. The flower pictuers that she was doing a couple of years ago. In some ways I think that the Sacchi fire was a good thing in her case, as for me it is her later more introverted works which are my favorites. Although the tent and so on was okay, it was of it's time.

I did own a Damion Hurst postcard, but I used it to pay my student loan.

 

As for the up to dateness of the BBC shows, most were new. Although the HCB one was old, it was a re edit. The origanal show had more reacton to the exhibit, while the new one had more of the intervew footage with the man himself.

 

Maybe I was a bit harsh on Lomography, it's just I can only look at 10 pairs of feet befour I get bored.

The Lomo thing was basically becouse certain 'trendy' people did it for about five minutes. I'm sure now if you asked Tracy Emin or Jarvis Cocker they wouldn't remeber what a Lomo was. It was a fad for about a month, I'm surprised that people are still doing it. The BBC doc was made in 1997, and was dug up for the photo week on BBC4.

 

Not that there is anything good or bad about Lomography, it's just not my cup of tea. It's not quite a stupid as Flash Mobbing (which was invented by a student trying to prove that people are so stupid as they would do things like that).

This is a picture taken with my CM accross the river Theames in London. I love the office building anyway and the clouds are the iceing on the cake.

 

No manipulation just a straight scan of the Image. The film was Kodak TX (shock horror) which was in the bundle when I brought the camera. Although I think Ilford XP2 works better.<div></div>

Looking at M's I'm very much a fan of the chorome ones, but in the UK

they are as reare as hens teeth. One dealer told me he has to order

chrome M7's and MP's indavidually if a customer want's them.

The black ones though have there charmes as well. Perhaps more

workaday and more professonal looking.

 

One thing I would like to see is a Titianium option on the new

cameras. The CM looks great with the brushed matt look of the metal

against the black leather. They did the Hermés M6 Titianum which had

tan leather. But they didn't do that for the Hermés MP.

Marketing wise the "Camera for extreems" MP's image would be enhanced

by the use of Titianium.

 

What are others fave's. Black or silver?

My persoanl favorite look is a Chrome body but black lens.

Thanks everyone. These have really awnserd my quesions. I'm still a bit undecided. My heart want's a M3 and Collapsable 50mm, my head is an M6 and the same lens.

I'll have to reffer to the other questions as to finder's!

I find that if I hold the Leica in my hand armed, then I can quickly put it up to my eye and take. Depending on the speed of the target though.

One ting I find is that if people are walking, you should hold the camera to your eye after you have taken and they have walked on. That way they assume your pic is of the building or what ever behind.

The master was Cartier-Bresson. According to Eve Arnold, "He was like a ghost, he would dance into position and be gone befour you realised he had taken your photo"

 

This one was acctually of the Street genrally, but the people are as intresting.<div></div>

Try getting them to dance to one of there favorite records, you might get some nice in formal shots.

Well I hope you have a great holiday in London. It can be a womderful city, although the transport is crap.

When looking for Jacobs it's right near the Centre Point Building...<div></div>

Thanks, that is a great help. Hopfully I can get some pictuers with it. It is certainly a upgrade on my Praktica BMS. Although my main day to day camera at the moment is a Leica CM.

Hi,

I have some questions about this camera. It belonged to my father who

passed away last year, so I have it now. But don't know how to use

it. The first time I tried the film didn't load properly on to the

spindal, and since then I've not really looked. Can someone point me

in the direction of a PDF set of instructions?

I would probably get one from RG Lewis in London, who have been selling Leica's since the `30's. (I belive they were the first outside of Germany) so I think it would have been checked out...

Peter, I like the shot of the ship, I always forget how big they are. I was hoping to get a good one of The World when she was in London, but they had a securaty cordan fence which looked rubbish through the view finder.