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If you need to shoot with a camera without worrying about the light and measuring then you can use M6 with less worry not having to think about light metering ( which allow the technical worry to think about lighting and how to use it focusing 80% on your shooting ) When I use my m6 it is just like a point and shoot camera and I am very fast in shooting. If you are good at composing and focusing this camera has lot of potentials than any other Autofocus camera too. I think Apf priority is all you want on a manual camera. So m5 is not for me.
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I think Portra 800 and 400 has two different aspects. I like 400 on my Hasselblad and never ever used 800. It was due the film saturation that looked different to me. M9 and 10 has two diffrent sensors and if you look at the colour photos and the different between two sensors that produses that is what makes you heart matter.
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Is this working or need more CLP? Looks like a nice piece .
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Storing cameras and lenses in a special dry cabinet
cyril_jayant1 replied to michael_levy3's topic in Leica and Rangefinders
If you store your lenses better to keep them away from the moisture and humid conditions. If you use a lens taken out a cold condition straight away to the hot humid conditions it forms condensations between lens elements and that's where the fungus in the air starts to grow. So the idea is to eliminate moisture and this can be done keeping all the lenses well-sealed containers ( Plastic bags and airtight containers ) with de-humidifiers like Silica gels. So this is an especial situation while using the photo tools during a visit in a tropical country, in the places like Sahara or in Iceland or alps mountains. Cold or hot weather can cause lot of condensations in cameras. -
Should I sell my SWC to get a M8?
cyril_jayant1 replied to justin_ng1's topic in Leica and Rangefinders
Keep the SWC and invest some money to get an M8 ( M8U or M8.2) is the most advisable choice. The fact of the First M being M8 and as it had the fastest shutter 1/8000 and it was constructed with two different materials of metal and ( it is duel color black and white) one metal being more vulnerable fo this high speed, it started shattering occasionally. after they introdused the upgrade of M8.2 eliminating this high shutter of 1/8000. Leica had given up this feature completely from all M cameras they introduced up today. I am one of them who had that painful trouble to have an upgraded shutter. So it is well advisable and well worth not to go for M8 but for an m8.2 or M8u with good used and care. -
There are many more to come until you change into Lightroom CC. That is the Adobe's Idea.
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This is what I hear, from time to time and I am sure that comes from someone who has never ever touched it or used it. I have owned all M from M8 to M9 and I have sold all but kept M6 and M8.2 . This is one of the best and I cherish it until to its the end. Nothing can be compared to the capability of what this camera can do with a hand of a good photographer. It is only second to the M monochrome and great in Mono and color photography. This M8 is rather the Classic M Than the "CULT" of M for me.
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The best way to understand this myth is to shoot an image with the same film ( EX. Tri-X ) with a same focal lens and with several other cameras. Develop all films in a standard development and print all different negatives in a general time temperature based developer and see the results and YOU SEE CLEARLY THIS MYTHICAL GLOW ON THE NEGATIVE THAT COMES FROM THE LEICA LENS. I am a devoted Leica photographer and my experience of using Leica goes back to 20 years back when I found this Mythical glow in my B&W photos and decided to dump all my other cameras and buy my First M6. Since then I found myself the difference between the Leica lenses and the other brand lenses. This is highly visible on a camera with an older sensor( M8 as an example ) and a Leica own lenses.
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Don' t worry about the year, Keep shooting, This is a good lens and older lenses like this have all the rendering qualities into softer / dreaming or subtle recording on the film. It is known as less contrast too if you know something about the B&W contrast comparable to the modern Summicron lens. This can see clearly on a digital M than on a film body.
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Hasselblad Meter Prism PME45 Repair
cyril_jayant1 replied to arthur_gottschalk's topic in Medium Format
What cameras are you using with this Finder? If you are using a 2000/ 200 series you have to check with the camera body if there is anything to do with the electronic contacts of the body that is the origin of the problems. Detach the camera from the Angle prism and if you have a waist level finder put that one on and see if you can read the light meter and the reading. -
Lightroom replacement
cyril_jayant1 replied to fotolopithecus's topic in The Digital Darkroom: Process, Technique & Printing
The new update into lightroom classic and Lightroom Cloud is another way to give away all right to use the software as you used to before but they lead you to do everything on their own terms. -
I had been using my M6 for 19years. I never had any parallax or range finder path problem. I was very comfortable about shooting m6 with the light meter as it gave me more 10% to concentrate on shooting than with any other camera without an in -camear metering Whatever argument is it in camera metering allows you to reduce your concentration on camera techniques and be more attantive and be more productive on shooting with M6 with it's built in reliable meter. But this can exclude some occasional and specific lighting situations
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Cartier Bresson's pictures were based on silver gelatine and black and white photography.
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Buying Leica M8 in 2017--does it make sense?
cyril_jayant1 replied to tomleoni's topic in Leica and Rangefinders
It is still a great camera. In a right hand and also with a lucky buy to find a least used m8 will be a blessing. But there's one thing more inportant thing to consider. Ddon't buy a M8 but a M8.2 or M8.2U ( an upgraded version ) to avoid further worries about the shutter breakdown due to highest shutter speed at 1/8000. So all the M cameras reliable shutter speed is limited to 1/4000. It was stablished by Leica when they upgraded m8 into M8.2 and it was continued om all M camera.s up to the present. I have gone through that and still my M8.2U is a great camera for me.
