Camera and Coffee

gabrielma said:
Alec: that 75 Summilux looks wonderful. If only they made it a wee bit more compact, it'd be great for candids.
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It is great for candids. People that you are shooting at only see the lens from head on, and while big it is not that scary. Or at least the built in hood one isn't...that old one's hood is massive!

Here's a candid with the 75 lux: http://www.stuartrichardson.com/shichi-go-san.jpg

In any case, I went back to that restaurant where I shot the MP awhile back and got the same coffee. Here is the MP's brother...the M7, a bit shadowy:
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And the big daddy that took both shots:

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Alec, what do you have covering the framelines on the Ti?

Stuart, I like that cafe better in black and white ;). Nice M, its just such a well built camera, and it shows.
 
Coffee? When I have to leave for work tomorrow at 4:30 a.m? No, thank you...
a nice glass of Chardonnay Colombard, though, will do nicely to toast the arrival of Jocko's Ugly Seagull. We'll see how it glides.
He sent the book, too: I am delighted!
And that's my Great Wall in the background, happy to greet a compatriot...
 
I think I like it better in color. ;) Nice pics Stuart! I think that M7 was a made-to-measure was it not?

Alec, how do you like those Lutz Slings? Thinking of getting one for my carry-round cam.

 
Hi guys!

I feel the good people at Leicgoodies should pay me for this, but anyway...

gabrielma said:
Alec: that 75 Summilux looks wonderful. If only they made it a wee bit more compact, it'd be great for candids. And Illy, really? Try Lavazza Gold.
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Hi Gabriel. The pictures look better than the lens itself. Talk of 'Leica pop'!
Mike Dixon uses it much better than I will ever.

einolu said:
Alec, what do you have covering the framelines on the Ti?
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Lutz Könermann's shade
Initially I did not believe the forum rumor of M6 rangefinder flare, but alas it is true, to the point of making mine unusable in a normal room with normal domestic lighting. And the amazing thing is that this strange and ungainly contraption works very well.

peter_n said:
Alec, how do you like those Lutz Slings? Thinking of getting one for my carry-round cam.
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When I got my M2 1.5 years ago, I felt I needed one. I was so pleased that I got another in a cinch for the new M6Ti.
Make sure you measure your finger correctly. And wait till your fingernails are long before you try to install it. ;) Both times installation was long, gruelling and painful... but well worth it. In all honesty, the first time, I even managed to break the steel ring using one of my ten thumbs. A few days later, I had a replacement in the mail, no questions asked. Why can't the 'big' firms selling expensive goods and services have the same conception of customer care as Aki Asahi San or Isabel @ Leicagoodies ? I don't know.

(As a business consultant, I hope to discover that some day and make a fortune, but that is another, totally off-topic, subject!)
 
peter_n said:
Thanks Alec. Ordered one, and an Sfill for my SF-20. :)
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You'll like it, Peter.

And, Gabriel, I have never seen anything labelled 'Lavazza Gold' myself. :(
Actually, lavasse meaning 'bad watery coffee' in French, I don't really know how well the brand is doing here! ;)
 
Come now, no consumer coffee can beat something that was roasted right there in front of you, can it? I imagine in Paris you have access to some of the best coffee in the world....I know the coffee I had there was excellent. Go to a coffee shop and get fresh roasted beans and grind them yourself! Much better...
 
This is the Kiev 4m I got from Denis - after the post office used the box as a soccer ball. Fortunately, Soviet cameras are used to that kind of treatment, it came through with not even a scratch!

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And now I go to shoot with it, see how we like one another. My new droog.

Dos Vedanya,

Vasili Mattocks
 
Verrry nice, Vassiliy :)

(BTW, it's do svidanya)

Looking forward to see the shots...

Denis
 
StuartR said:
Come now, no consumer coffee can beat something that was roasted right there in front of you, can it? I imagine in Paris you have access to some of the best coffee in the world....I know the coffee I had there was excellent. Go to a coffee shop and get fresh roasted beans and grind them yourself! Much better...
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I have an italian colleague at work, since a year. He brings his own coffee from Italy, mostly, roasted by a friend of him, grinded by him and makes excellent fresh strong coffee each midday after lunch. The smell of it makes me crazy already. He's nice enough to offer it to me everytime he makes it. I'm not nice enough to refuse it, not once.

Nice kiev, bill. Mine is heavy as hell, but a good workhorse since repaired the shutter ribbon. Might sell it though, if the contax turns out to be well working.

Denis, long time no post. Howdy.
 
Just trying out the newly repaired digicam and the CF reader I managed to scrounge for it so just a quick, if iffy quality shot of the Canon IVSb with J8 mounted, the J12 on one side and my Steinheil on the other. I swear I can get the poorest imaginable shot out of any digital camera... :bang: :rolleyes: :bang:

William
 
Pherdinand said:
I have an italian colleague at work, since a year. He brings his own coffee from Italy, mostly, roasted by a friend of him, grinded by him and makes excellent fresh strong coffee each midday after lunch. The smell of it makes me crazy already. He's nice enough to offer it to me everytime he makes it. I'm not nice enough to refuse it, not once.
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Yeah, there really is nothing like truly excellent coffee. My mom is an ornithologist (studies birds), and she travels to Costa Rica a few times a year. She always brings back the most incredible coffee. She goes up into the mountains in the center of the country, so I think she has access to some of the stuff before it is packaged and so on. It's very fresh, and very good.

As for the cameras, always pleasant to see some Russian beauties! We should organize an RFF field trip to St. Petersburg or Moscow...that way you can ogle Russian beauties whether they take film or are the subject of it.

And by the way, like Denis said, it is do svidaniya...do means until, and svidaniya is the genitive case of the word "meeting". So it means "until we meet (again)."
 
William,
Very nice outfit! As soon as I get my digicrap back I'll have a C&C shot or two to post. Glad to see the J-12 has some good company! :cool:
Rob
 
three sisters

three sisters

As I promissed in an other thread, the sisters are invited for a tea.
Somehow they chose vodka rather...

Cheers,

nemjo
 
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StuartR said:
As for the cameras, always pleasant to see some Russian beauties! We should organize an RFF field trip to St. Petersburg or Moscow...that way you can ogle Russian beauties whether they take film or are the subject of it.
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Jolly good idea! beats even the Minolta Manual Focus convention in NYC... the only problem being finding an excuse for the 'better half'...
 
Any Argus C4 fans out there?

Any Argus C4 fans out there?

I've been waiting for the right moment to open a big box from Minnesota. This afternoon, I made a cup of tea and, bracing myself for a possible ebay bad experience, opened it up. I was pleasantly surprised to find an Argus C4 kit that seems to have been only lightly used. The brass on the camera bag isn't even rusty! The ever-ready case smells nice! Whoa. The little tripod works and isn't broken! This makes up for the last few boneheaded purchases I made. The camera has a nice heft to it -- cast body -- and only required a little lighter fluid to loosen up the shutter blades. I don't actually have a use for the flash, but it looks like new too. I'm considering a professional CLA since I got such a bargain on this. Anyone have experience with cleaning these? Funny, there's no light foam or felt around the back. Reminds me of a Zorki that way. I always put yarn in a Zorki before trying it out. I wonder if these C4's are more light-proof? This should be good.... :p
 
fraley -- You might try that flash. There is nothing like the look on people's faces after a flashbulb goes off: "I've gone blind! I've gone blind!" Then there is the smoke of the burning lacquer. They put out a lot more light than any electronic flash you've used.

Beautiful camera!
 
Nikon S3

Nikon S3

Christmas came early over Thankgiving as my dad gave me his 1958 S3 with a 35 f2.5 and a 105 f2.5. Very nice shape, original hoods and all. He had it CLA'd a few years back so it is ready to go. The 1:1 finder is sweet although the 35 framelines are pretty much out if sight unless I remove my glasses. This coffee shot was taken with a my Nikon digicam.
 
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