New York February NYC Meet-Up/ Fourth Annual Camera Beauty Contest

The question is will I be allowed to come out with you guys once you go this route? My high res body is the Sigma DP2m. I will put it on a tripod if it'll allow me to hang with you slow pokes.
 
jsrockit said:
The question is will I be allowed to come out with you guys once you go this route? My high res body is the Sigma DP2m. I will put it on a tripod if it'll allow me to hang with you slow pokes.
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The fact is a guy like me does not need anymore cameras, and right now I'm pretty well geared out. Even if I won the lottery I don't think I need any more 135 of 120 cameras.

Phil makes a good point about suffering. Also buying a Linof because I like the grip is a very foolish thing to do, but it would be in character. Also do I really need a view camera, but on the other hand I could see myself doing some great photography with one.

BTW I downsized a camera, and Andre now has my old Fuji G690 BL that is affectionately known as "The Streetfighter" because it looks like it got into a few fights. Now I only have two Texas Leicas. I think I'll enter them in the pagant as a kit.

Cal

Cal
 
Calzone said:
Phil if you are indirectly saying that I'm annoying I would have to agree. I not only drive myself crazy, but I also tend to make other people crazy. It seems like I bring out both the best and worse in people.

And for making people crazy, just ask my boss at work. LOL.

Cal
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Not saying you're annoying at all!

Phil Forrest
 
Cal, stop fretting about 4x5! Just buy the grip on it's own and adapt it to one (or all) of your other cameras. It will cost you $100 and you will be done with the whole discussion.
 
jsrockit said:
The question is will I be allowed to come out with you guys once you go this route? My high res body is the Sigma DP2m. I will put it on a tripod if it'll allow me to hang with you slow pokes.
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Actually, John, if you mount a Linhof grip on the sigma I'm sure you will be invited. It will take care of camera shake, but it might drive Cal crazy.
 
I think this accessorizing with Linhof grips is a great idea.
Watch out, they might end up in non-photographic places:
car shifter
doorknob
refrigerator handle
toilet flush lever
shower/bath faucet knobs
free-weights
water pitcher handle
cooking pot handle/s
coffee mug handle
ski poles
television remote
flashlight grip

You get what a slippery slope this could be...

Phil Forrest
 
Phil_F_NM said:
I think this accessorizing with Linhof grips is a great idea.
Watch out, they might end up in non-photographic places:
car shifter
doorknob
refrigerator handle
toilet flush lever
shower/bath faucet knobs
free-weights
water pitcher handle
cooking pot handle/s
coffee mug handle
ski poles
television remote
flashlight grip

You get what a slippery slope this could be...

Phil Forrest
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I'm pretty sure the patent on them has run out, so this is not as crazy as it seems.
 
CNNY said:
Cal, stop fretting about 4x5! Just buy the grip on it's own and adapt it to one (or all) of your other cameras. It will cost you $100 and you will be done with the whole discussion.
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I can see using the Linhof grip on a big Fuji (either my GL690 of GM670) with a high probability of getting two to satify my grip fetish.

Not sure I need a grip on the Rollei, but I was considering a pistol grip at one point because I am ill. If I rig out my two Fuji's with Linhof grips, basically every camera I own will have a grip. LOL much to John's discuss. LOL.

The list includes:Nikon F3P (MD-4 and aftermarket grip); Wetzlar M6; Leica II (model D); Plaubel 69W Pro-Shift; the two Texas Leicas; and my Pentax 67 II.

Now it seems like I need the pistol grip for the Rollei just to annoy John. LOL.

Anyways the TA Rapidgrip mounted on the black paint Leica II looks like it was engineered for the camera. Also know that the big Fuji's have those awful pins to hang a strap on that I find unreliable. I almost dropped cameras because the strap became detached on a few occasions.

Also know I found a polaroid taken of me at the used counter at B&H during one of my micro-meet-ups. It shows how skinny and thin my arms use to be before I got real serious shooting medium format. Basically I put an inch on my chest and my right arm is savagely overbuilt. My M6 equip with a TA Rapidwinder, TA Rapidgrip and with the chromed brass 50 Lux ASPH weighs about as much as my F3P with motor-drive and Noct-Nikkor.

Cal
 
Phil_F_NM said:
Get a grip, John. 😀

Phil Forrest
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John calls my cameras "Monsters." LOL.

BTW last year I had a bout of day-trading Leica screw mounts, where in the matter of about a week I bought three, traded two, sold one to John, and then bought it back a week later. Anyways the 1938 black paint Leica II use to be John's camera, and I've turned it into a "Monster" just to annoy John. LOL.

Cal
 
jsrockit said:
I'm surprised one of you geeks hasn't slapped a lens turret on your camera.
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Carl Merkin brought a LTM that featured some rare Leica turret. It truely was monsterous. It feature three lenses.

At B&H one of my friends there showed me some weird Leica Elmar lens that was made to do stereo photography on a M-body. If it wasn't so costly I would of bought it, and now I wish I did. It was strange, but cool. I imagine that the urban decay that I love to shoot with the added 3-D quality would be an asset. Somehow it divided a 24mmx35mm frame in half.

Cal
 
jsrockit said:
I can see you with one of those (m mount)... with a .95, a 1.0, and a 1.2 Noctilux attached. 😛
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Now that's truely crazy. I don't think that Leica made one for M-mount, but that seems more like a rig for Tung. He's the guy who owned both a Noct 1.0 and a Noct 0.95.

Anyways what would we call that camera, and who's going to bring it to the next beauty contest?

BTW you will not recognize your old camera. Recently at work the internet was down so I had nothing to do, but I had that Leica II. I basically spent almost a full day cleaning and polishing it. Not sure if old black paint cameras were suppose to be so glossy. I guess the old "vintage dirt and grime" worked like jewler's rudge to finely polish the paint.

Cal
 
Calzone said:
At B&H one of my friends there showed me some weird Leica Elmar lens that was made to do stereo photography on a M-body. If it wasn't so costly I would of bought it, and now I wish I did. It was strange, but cool. I imagine that the urban decay that I love to shoot with the added 3-D quality would be an asset. Somehow it divided a 24mmx35mm frame in half.

Cal
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Those stereo elmars are just for collectors. I have a Pentax stereo-attachment that does the same thing. It needs a 50mm lens though to work properly, which becomes like a 75mm in half-frame. That is the only limitation. It is pretty neat, if you find the right subject matter. I also have a View Master stereo camera with the whole cutting and mounting kit and spare reels. It has twin fixed focus 20mm Rodenstock lenses, that performed very nicely with kodachrome.

Here comes my confession of the day:
I went through a 'stereo-phase', and once was a member of the Royal British Stereoscopic Society. It was probably founded some time in the 19th century when stereo was popular. They would have these monthly events in a big hall where 100+ members would show. There would be for sale tables, and they had a battery of projectors to do slide shows in every stereo format. The slide show would be over an hour of snaps of weekend outings with the grandchildren to Brighton, or close-ups of flowers from Kew Gardens etc. It was a bit excruciating, but all in 3D which made it ok. As I was the only person under 60 there I felt a little out of place and I stopped going.

EDIT: Just realized they are just the stereoscopic society, I imagined the royal part.
 
CNNY said:
Those stereo elmars are just for collectors. I have a Pentax stereo-attachment that does the same thing. It needs a 50mm lens though to work properly, which becomes like a 75mm in half-frame. That is the only limitation. It is pretty neat, if you find the right subject matter. I also have a View Master stereo camera with the whole cutting and mounting kit and spare reels. It has twin fixed focus 20mm Rodenstock lenses, that performed very nicely with kodachrome.

Here comes my confession of the day:
I went through a 'stereo-phase', and once was a member of the Royal British Stereoscopic Society. It was probably founded some time in the 19th century when stereo was popular. They would have these monthly events in a big hall where 100+ members would show. There would be for sale tables, and they had a battery of projectors to do slide shows in every stereo format. The slide show would be over an hour of snaps of weekend outings with the grandchildren to Brighton, or close-ups of flowers from Kew Gardens etc. It was a bit excruciating, but all in 3D which made it ok. As I was the only person under 60 there I felt a little out of place and I stopped going.

EDIT: Just realized they are just the stereoscopic society, I imagined the royal part.
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That's pretty funny. Never knew that and I've known you over 4 years.

Well I'm no longer in denial: I have a grip fetish.

Although I say John has a strap fetish, he's in denial. LOL.

Back to stereo photography, way back when there was a Cold War just imagine a crazy out of control artist working in a Fortune 500 aerospace company called Grumman when it was the fourth largest military contractor in the U.S. Back then I worked in research labs and believe it or not I had a secret security clearance.

I worked with Ph.D's one-on-one doing all kinds of stuff that never was done before doing solid state physics, optics, chemistry and even was involved in building a neutral partical beam accelerator prototype that eventually would become a space based weapon to shoot down Intercontinental Ballistic Missles in their boost phase before they vaporize us.

Anyways somehow I came up with a clever idea of creating a binocular version of an optical corelator I was working on, eventually got awarded a U.S. patent, and became "Inventor of the Year for Gruman's Space and Electronics Division. Not bad for a lazy slacker with only back then a vocational school education in electronics and a four year art degree.

Cal
 
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