mr._kenny

i got a lockin' one: 27228xx --lhsa; sorry, pride of ownership ;)

the TE 135 works for me as a handy lightweight optically great lens that i can carry around me as a compliment to my 35 lux.<br />

i use it for things i can't get closer to, like tops of buildings, people 2 blocks away, that sort of thing. if i were going to use it close up for snapping headshots, i'd be pretty unhappy, other cameras would do a better job, specifically at blurring a backround, etc. also the close-focusing distance is 1.5 m iirc -- the 50mm lenses have more magnification (at .7m) than the 135TE. <br />

i don't know about the 135mm elmarit, but it if it's based on the sonnar style, i'd assume that it has a large-ish minimum focal distance, just like the 90mm sonnar for the g2 and the elmarit-m. plus the TE is slow, which means you're using 800+ speed films for a decent interior portrait. for that situation, you're better of with slrs i'd imagine, at f2 or f1.4. not that it couldn't be done, but it's not the best use for a rangefinder system. with the 1.25x mag, i have no trouble focusing the TE on a .72 m6ttl at more than 2 meters at f4.

Michael, i think you're thinking of Berek's dog HEKTOR.

thrasher and transworld snowboarding for photo magazines. not the lame vidcap series shots -- very handy when you want to learn a new trick, but aesthetically awful. the travel photograpy is great, it's more my point of view, to borrow a phrase. and the sports photography is astounding.<br />

pdn is the anti-blindspot. this is both good and bad, in my opinion. i find that the internet and books get me farther than almost all magazines i can think of offhand. i really beleive that the editors of photo art mags are out to deify art, plain and simple, almost to put perception in second place to concept. i think they have it the wrong way around. wheras the internet, it's all about 'here's my snap, whaddayathink????' which i find as a photographer much closer to how i think about snaps. perhaps if i shot 4x5 in soho with found objects/people and complicated themes 'about' something i'd find blind spot/aperture/etc. more palatable. and fashion photography is so crass right now, it's not worth even calling art anymore.

evidently there are some 21mm biogons floating around with m-mounts, but unfortunately with scale focusing. the refitted lens mounts are done by zorki. i've never had it done, but i heard the cost was $800. seems silly, why not just get a g2 and be done with it?

domo alex. i liked your photos before, and i especially like them now!

 

kampai

 

Kenny

seriously, i give up.

again!

afternoon on the puget sound

i use an agfa sca flash, the agfatronic 643cs. 2 flashes, sensor, display, bounce, tilt, takes 8 rechargable AAs, and a guide number of 210 -- all for $40. quantum also makes a battery for it, very handy.

i dunno, i keep cropping photos to the longest dimension of 510 pixels -- every single one is displaying as a link.

under the stairs

i take pictures because it's fun. it's the most fun camera i own.

love the candyman. nice photo jim.

josh, i was thinking the same thing when aaron boone hit that homer -- off a wakefield 'fastball' no less -- seattle really screwed up and should have acquired him before the deadline.<br />

i know yankee fans hate to hear this, but i think there should be a salary cap in spending. mlb is the only of the 'big four' sports without a cap. just look at the nfl with the cap, far far more interesting -- indy and carolina are on top, new york and san fran in the dumpster. it's just not competitive when some teams -- yanks, red sox, mariners -- spend 3:1, 4:1, 6:1 -- over their rivals.

man, what was grady little thinking. and why are so many leica fans ALSO bosox fans?

my turn <i>again</i>

my turn:

the sl66 was designed by a genius, it is pretty amazing what you can do with one. i'm serious. i want one. good used lens selection too. the best thing about hasselblads though is the huge used market.

i too am surprised that this camera didn't come with a case. the last camera like this, the 'm6 traveller' came with a matching leather breifcase. i'm wondering why this one didn't -- surely they (hermes/leica) could have squeezed out a dang ever-ready case for this one?

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as a seattle guy myself, it's darkroom/studio portraiture time for the next 6 months -- and guitar and snowbard time too! looks like a fine la nina year, grab a board!

colour!

one of the few things right about the contax n series, apeture control on the lens and hyperfocal/DOF on the lens.