russell_brooks

Hello all! I'm selling my CPP-2 with lift, and bottles. I have to

check, but I think I have a few tanks and reels to go with it as

well. I'm selling because my flat is just too small. The "catch", if

you can call it that, is that it has a US power supply but it's here

in London so you'll have to buy a power adaptor. I dont want to mess

with finding the right packaging as it's quite big so it's for pick

up in person only. I'm right near the main Jessops and all the

classic camera shops near the British Museum so you can always make a

good trip of it. Price? I dunno, what do you suggest, I'm open.

I've got one of these. Yellow glass and radioactve they say. Looking to sell it.

Hey Al, good to hear! Keep on keeping on.

429g?!! Baaa! That was the main reason I wanted a "slower" short tele. I wonder how much lighter and compact they could have made it if they made it a f2.5 or f2.8?

The first shot that shows the close up of the neon lights was cropped. Otherwise they were all uncropped, unsharpened. I only adjusted the levels a bit.

Alright, so those were the shots. I dont think the Epson can handle the Noct too well. But oh well... Anyway, what do you guys/gals think?

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I took these around China Town, etc... in London. You'll see on the

one shot how it has trouble with the neon light with aliasing and the

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The problem with these scans is that the plane of focus of the negative is bowed during scantime unless it's in a glass carrier. It only takes a little bit of bow to create the mushy look that Vic(?)'s jpg shows above. Check it under a loupe and I'm sure the original neagtive is crisp.

Worried about forgetting to extend the lens? This I dont see as a problem. I've never even thought about it. And I would always go for the screwmount version if it's available and use the converter. Once you've used a iii body you start to realise how bulky the M3 is. I have an elmar, a summar, and a cron. I like the Elmar the best for it's size but it excludes most low light/indoor shooting.

Something like the Summar should help to lighten the shadows and scatter the highlights to build a natural S-shaped curve. Or am I missing something?

I've been to the shop Craig talks about and I seem to remember that had a decent selection. Also I've been to the shop Richard talks about on Nanjingdonglu and they had some upstairs as well. There was also one in downtown Xian that I saw had some stuff as well. Otherwise you might just want to make a big mail order purchase from the states or europe? That's what I'd do. Buy the dev and fix powder from one of these Chinese shops but fly in large abouts of film, papers, etc... from a western mail order company.

It's not worth it. It's the canadian balsam coming off. At least that's what my repair guys says. He wants as much to repair it as it cost. So I'd sell it for whatever you can get and find one that is clean. Or if you have a minty body on it you might want to go ahead and pay the large repair bill and then you have something that'll last...

Leica is trading right now at 2.77 EUR down 1.04 EUR day on day. The recent average is 4.25 EUR. Und tschuss!

The manual focus doesnt help the flat focal plane issue so dont let that trick you. Only glass. Why? The curvature of the film. It's 3 dimensional. Even if you get it sharp in foucs at 1/3 the distance from the center it's just a compromise. Also Lutz's idea of layering different scans at different focus points has merit except that it a) takes at least twice as long b) the layers dont match up exactly - the focal length has changed - and this adds up to about 20 pixels in my experience at full resolution.

I have a III and a IIIf. The viewfinder next to the rangefinder on the IIIf is a big deal. You'll want to get a model that has this rather than the III. And you'll want to do a full CLA even if it seems ok. Mine is being cleaned by a leading repairman in the UK as we speak. He also mentions that the IIIf inside design is more light-tight than the earlier models.

The Elmar is a good pairing. It even goes in my blue jeans back pocket if I dont sit down. Light meter in the front pocket. Looks a bit funny, but the point of this is that you dont even have to wear a jacket or something with big pockets. I've been turned off of my Ms as a result - too big, too heavy.

I wouldnt buy it. I own one. I also have the Silverfast software for it. It's great except that the film flatness issue is just too much of a problem to overlook. I dont use mine anymore. It's almost a waste. Now, if they came out with a glass carrier it would help. Check my thread where I post some pictures to illustrate the point: http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00AZS8