richard_ilomaki

Returning after ??? years! Is a Huawei P20Pro considered a Leica Camera? It's my only working camera now, but I still keep my M4 and LTM. Attached is a sample!

<p>I once took a photo of my daughter, full length against a background of an open field across the highway from our house. The lens was a $25 Russian Panda Industar 61 on a FED body. In her eyes is a highlight. I was flabbergasted when I looked at the highlight with a good loop and was able to discern myself in the reflection as well as an image of my car and a telephone pole hundreds of feet away. The film was generic 35 mm Ilford 400 in D 76. Too bad I can't access the print now.</p>

<p>Hi all.</p>

<p>I have a Zeiss Ikonta 520/2 6 x 9 camera in good condition except for the metal TEE tab in the winder mechanism that engages the slot in the take-up spool. It is worn and will not turn the spool so the film can not be advanced. Is it easily repairable? Can the fold-down winder handle be removed to slide the post out? Any help is appreciated: there are no more old-style camera repair shops that I can find in Toronto any more.</p>

 

<p>I have a Shen Hao 8x10 made of teak and titanium which I bought right from the factory in Shanghai. It is an exceptional piece of fine craftsmanship and I have been using it for over 10 years, albeit sparingly and it is still in "mint" condition. I also have the bag bellows for lenses as short as 65 mm I think, altho the shortest I have used is 120mm.</p>

<p>RIP Sylvano's. I dealt with them when theywere on eglinto ave and I wasm ordering ferrania film!!</p>

<p>Try Toronto Image Works at 80 Spadina, where Edward Burtynsky is one of thew principals. As of 2 weeks ago they were still doing 8 x 10 EK and C41 processing ad still had darkrooms for rent.</p>

<p>RIP Sylvano's. I dealt with them when theywere on eglinto ave and I wasm ordering ferrania film!!</p>

<p>Try Toronto Image Works at 80 Spadina, where Edward Burtynsky is one of thew principals. As of 2 weeks ago they were still doing 8 x 10 EK and C41 processing ad still had darkrooms for rent.</p>

Ronald

 

CALCIUM CARBONATE?!?!? Isn't that marble and insoluble? Do you not mean Sodium Carbonate.

 

I use Kodalk or Sodium metaborate. A box of 20 Mule Team lasts forever.

Hi there

 

I tried this years ago and gave it up. Now with digital SLRs there is no reason to use film for microscopy, IMHO. The DSLR can be tethered to a laptop and printer live on line.

 

The same transition occured in astrophotography, as CCD cameras have almost completely replaced film. That may be one reason Kodak discontinued Tech Pan, which was the fvourite film for that work.

 

My 2 cents worth.

 

Cheers

Hi there

I have just bought and tried a Microtek M-1, glassless scanner on 8 x 10 negs and it seems to be very good. I used 1200 resolution and on the screen it looks like I can get up to 5x (that 40 x 50 in) prints. I will try a 13 x 19 print on my Epson R2400 in a few days.

Cheers

The new Microtek 900 is also great as there is no glass between the negs- up to 8 x 10 and the scanner head.

 

Cheers

Hi there again

 

I didn't ask about the lens or shade, but he did use the RF on the side and the flashbulb worked great with strong full sunlit backlighting.

Hi There

 

In NYC on St Patrick's Day, trying to avoid the crowds on 5th Ave, I noticed a

fellow quietly "lurking" next to a post at the SW corner of 5th & 42nd, St @

the north corner of the New york Public Library. He had a neat old Graflex

with a screw-in large !FLASHBULB! in a holder held together with an elastic

band.

 

He bought the camera in the 60s and had, he said, tens of thousand of

flashbulbs left. We reminisced about the old days- Willoughby's, The Camera

Barn etc. We traded data on our LF cameras and the lamented the decline of

film. He then took my picture, holding my D 200, with the Graflex (and the

flashbulb) on Fuji Instant film and put it in a folder and a very moderate sum

of money changed hands.

 

A few minuteds later he was gone but I had his Photo.<div></div>

HI THERE

 

GOOGLE "ELEVATOR LAB" in Toronto. Last I heard, they had a full line of "Old Style" printing

including Ciba/Ilfochrome and Lambda and other digital processes. Bob and Kevin are great

guys

to deal with.

 

Cheers

Hi There

 

I just received some Kodachrome slides I took on a cross-Canada drive last summer, the camera being a

Leica CL with the 40mm Summicron. WOW! I had forgotten what the image quailty, to my eyes, was like.

The mountains, the clouds, the rivers, glaciers, the rocky outcrops the wolves, not to mention my old

maroon Taurus SHO against the mountains: digital has not matched that yet.

 

Over the last few months I have been using a Nikon D200 for street shots in Shenzhen China, where I was

working and have completely switched to The Darkside for that type of shooting:- no comparison:- ease

of focus & exposure, editing on the go, abiliy to reshoot if I was not perfect etc. Since the content and not

the medium is the message, to me, in those shots, the D 200 takes it hands down.

 

So, the Leicas stay and I will use my stash on K64 sparingly and hope Dwayne's and Kodak stay in

business.

 

Cheers

Hi there D.

 

Welcome to the wondeful world of Capitalism! All those who can not tolerate this, move to another planet, or start a socialist revolution and try correcting what Lenin and Mao failed to do.

 

PS I have 2 boxes of AZO: $250 each and they are yours!!!!

Hi There

 

Try Elevator Gallery in Toronto. They advertise on APUG and have an 11 x 4 DeVere enlarger and do wet prints as well as digital onto RA 4 paper via a Durst Lambda system. Absolutely wonderful results, in my experience.

 

Cheers

Dmitry

 

Be VERY careful about buying Leicas in HK. The waranty may be valid only in the country of origin. I had a bad hassle with Schmidt, the HK distributor, even tho I bought it from an official Leica dealer there. check it out thoroughly before buying!

Good Luck

Tom

 

Thanks for all the great stuff on the site. The lens has more than a little COMA and Spherical aberation, but not so much as a $15,000, 2000 mm refracting telescope I used a few years ago at a University of Toronto observatory.

 

Another example of a good lens, hobbled by the "Nacisisim of Minor Differences".

 

Cheers

Thanks all. especially for the cautionary adavice. I have worked with AC systems up to 455 000 volts and am still alive, despite some excitement, and DC systems up to 600 V.

 

I'll try getting about 10 disposable cameras with flash, mounting them on a board then syncing the triggers, which will give me a larger radiating surface area to lessen specular highlights. This may in fact be easier than cobbling together a monster unit, and no doubt less costly, as minilabs gladly give them away.

 

Cheers

Hello

 

I now have the need for a more powerful flash system, as I want to do

portraits with an 8 x 10. I have 2, 283s, but those are still a bit feeble.

I have made some smaller flash units(<100 WS) years ago and now have a bunch

of photoflash capacitors that should give enough WS/Joules. What I need is a

schematic for a system 110V sourced system as well as some part numbers for

the trigger transformer and flash tube. I need about 2000WS.

 

Does anyone have, or know of such a circuit before I take the step of trying

to design one from basic tube-era electronics theory. I know the power stored

in capacitors can be very dangerous, but have worked with this before and know

the correct procedures for working with high power energized DC.

 

Thanks

Leon

 

What he said: "Nothing that can't be done with another camera, unfortunately.", but it can be done reliably year after year, decade after decade, no batteries and the viewfinder. AH The Viewfinder!

 

For any given arrangement of exposed silver particles on film, another lens may deliver similar results, but over a thousand images those from a Leica with Leica lenses will look "Better" IMHO.

 

Also the feel and sound of the lead-pipe-solid shutter and winding mechanism is a thing of mechanically orgasmic beauty & satisfaction.

 

Very few people of whatever musical sophistication can distinguish, reliably, every time, the sound of a Stradivarious violin from many others, but the total aesthetic experience, indefineable as it is, is worth it to some people.

 

Troll or no, that's my 1.9 Cents worth.

 

Cheers

HC 110 or the Ilford equivalent is great for months/years. I pour the concentrate into little plastic film canisters- about 30 ml each-then cap them with as little air as possible in each, then keep them in the 'fridge. Any time I need developer, I take one film can and mix it with water, rinsing out the can about 5 times with the water I'm using, to make 1 litre. This results in about a 1:32 dilution, just as specified on the bottle.

YK

 

I had some simple work done in Shanghai, but not a full CLA. HK or Japan is better.

 

Cheers

Christian

 

sorry to hear abolut the theft.

 

Ron's Camera in Adelphi Centre in Singapore usually has many Leica's & accessories. I don't know his E Mail address but you may try rchan@pacificnet.com or Google. Adelphi is across the street from the Peninsula Centre.

 

No bargains but usually first class goods.

thanks Hugo and Trevor.

 

Not many photographs have evoked tears in 2 seconds, but one of hers did: the one with the gas mask on the window ledge of the kindergareden did just that.

 

As an Industrial Loss Prevention engineer, the whole Chernobyl monster is a nightmare for me, as it shows me everything we preach in our preofession has a real basis and does in fact deal with life and death matters.

 

The whole mess was a "predictable outcome of known deficiencies", to quote the opening line of the report of the commission of inquiry at Three Mile Island.

 

I love her quote: "The roads are blocked for cars, but not for motorcycles. Good girls go to heaven. Bad ones go to hell. And girls on fast bikes go anywhere they want."

 

Great stuff.

 

Thanks again