gb hill
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Barrett, who develops your BW400CN? Mine & others come back many times with a sepia tint. Your photos look so...well!, B&W. You should get this camera if you can. looks fantastic.
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amateriat
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Wayne: Well, my M-Hex setup is 28-50-90. The Summicron nicely plugs the "gap", so to speak (I don't feel a true gap between 28 and 50, but it was either the 35 or a 50 Summicron of similar vintage, and I like my 50 M-Hex just fine, thanks).
After seven years in pure Hexarcana, having the M2 in the mix has been interesting. I love the overall feel of the thing. Even though I've been bringing along my Sekonic L-428, I've rarely used it, preferring to go with a modified "sunny 16" formula and getting pretty good results...yes, kids, if I can do it, you know it's fairly easy. 😉
I got the hang of loading it fairly quickly, although I wonder about eventually having it modded with an M4-style quick-load spool. Pros/cons? (This won't happen until the thing's officically mine; sending it out for a CLA is one thing, but you don't mod someone else's Leica without their say-so.
But, speaking of mods: has anyone ever had the button-rewind clutch release changed to the later lever release?
Here's another shot from that test roll:
- Barrett
After seven years in pure Hexarcana, having the M2 in the mix has been interesting. I love the overall feel of the thing. Even though I've been bringing along my Sekonic L-428, I've rarely used it, preferring to go with a modified "sunny 16" formula and getting pretty good results...yes, kids, if I can do it, you know it's fairly easy. 😉
I got the hang of loading it fairly quickly, although I wonder about eventually having it modded with an M4-style quick-load spool. Pros/cons? (This won't happen until the thing's officically mine; sending it out for a CLA is one thing, but you don't mod someone else's Leica without their say-so.
But, speaking of mods: has anyone ever had the button-rewind clutch release changed to the later lever release?
Here's another shot from that test roll:
- Barrett
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amateriat
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GB: I have a local CVS with a minilab whose crew seems to run a fairly tight ship (my local Rite Aid did a good job, but their Noritsu has had a few hiccups as of late). The trick here is that developing the roll is the only thing I let the lab guys and gals do; I don't even let them cut the roll...they just run it through the chemistry and hand it back to me in their little paper pouch. No printing, no scanning, just souping. I take the rolls home, cut 'em up myself, then either make low-res individual scans for quick on-screen evaluation, or make digital contact sheets on the big flatbed, and make either 11x17" or, rarely, 13x19" "contact" prints.
(One other reason the scans you see here look neutral: These were low-res scans on the Minolta DS 5400, but, via VueScan, they were output as 16bit greyscale, not RGB. That helps keep color casts at bay. Your local lab likely won't do this unless you ask them, and even then it's a bit chancy.)
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gb hill
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Barrett, your advice help tremendously. I have a photo editing program that will allow me to convert an image to 8 or 16 bit greyscale. I just tried this with a photo & it took out all the sepia & gave me a nice b&w photo. Old hat to all you guys I'm sure, but for me I learned something new, & now I don't feel all my BW400CN is a loss. 🙂
amateriat
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GB: Remember, we were all clueless about this stuff at one time. There are no born experts. 🙂
That said: glad to be of help.
- Barrett
That said: glad to be of help.
- Barrett
gdi
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Of course! 😀
The shots do look good, by the way. The camera seems to be fine. But I would go out and shoot at all speeds to test.
My M3 seemed fine till I tried that and found that the shutter was capping at 1/1000.
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Barrett,
that is a nice looking camera and lens! Shots look good, too.
A suggestion on 'closing the deal': express your wish to buy in time, negotiate a fair price now and offer to pay a down payment while having it on loan.
That way you will be covered, you can be pretty sure the camera will eventually be your property, you can agree that your down payment will be hers if the camera gets damaged, etc.
Agreeing on a time span to pay the whole price would make it kind of a rent-to-buy construction etc. I would strike a deal like this.
A construction like this is enough business-like to not cloud the client relationship. Too-friendly constructions carry the risk of fouling a business relationship, I know from experience. You could end up without a client ànd a camera if something goes sour.
that is a nice looking camera and lens! Shots look good, too.
A suggestion on 'closing the deal': express your wish to buy in time, negotiate a fair price now and offer to pay a down payment while having it on loan.
That way you will be covered, you can be pretty sure the camera will eventually be your property, you can agree that your down payment will be hers if the camera gets damaged, etc.
Agreeing on a time span to pay the whole price would make it kind of a rent-to-buy construction etc. I would strike a deal like this.
A construction like this is enough business-like to not cloud the client relationship. Too-friendly constructions carry the risk of fouling a business relationship, I know from experience. You could end up without a client ànd a camera if something goes sour.
