John McCain & my Leica
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SolaresLarrave
My M5s need red dots!
Nh3
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You should have carried both your Leica bodies and all of your lenses. Also one of your bodies should have been loaded with a high speed film or a film which could be easily pushed.
Your approach was "conservative". 😎
oscroft
Veteran
amateriat
We're all light!
Politics aside, the best thing to have done, IMO, was to load up with XP2, vary your EI as necessary, then have your lab of choice process as usual. Unless you already have a a dRF, or dSLR (with requisite IS-equipped zoom), this would be the more straightforward solution, by far.
(And I'll bet neither of the current candidates would have come up with this for you.) 🙄
- Barrett
(And I'll bet neither of the current candidates would have come up with this for you.) 🙄
- Barrett
tmfabian
I met a man once...
I love showing up at events with ma lil film baby. Without fail, every time them fancy pantsed humungo DSLR with 80-200 ginormous lenses PJ folk stop to check their histograms i'm snapping the picture that ends up with the thumbs up from the editor.
On the note of whether the push will come out alright, my view on this is hey, at least it won't be just some properly exposed image...it'll have a little charm to it.
On the note of whether the push will come out alright, my view on this is hey, at least it won't be just some properly exposed image...it'll have a little charm to it.
nzeeman
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with all this usa chasing "terrorists" around the globe- i think we will not ask who obama or who mccain were. in a few years we will ask - usa? what is that?
TheHub
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I pushed Kodachrome 64 to 128 and there were no problems: http://flickr.com/photos/nagoya_boston/2086316462/
sepiareverb
genius and moron
I stopped shooting stock rather than move to a DSLR and parking my a$$ here at this computer for entire days at a time editing and preparing images for the agencies. That most of my lenses would (at that time) need replacing to have a full-featured DSLR didn't help, nor did the sale prices dropping like a stone due to royalty free.
'Retirement' was a boon to my personal work, and thankfully I fell into a teaching job I was able to expand a bit right before the switch to an all digital stock workflow.
Spider67
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Interestingly when a German minister of foreign affairs was surrounded by photojournalists the scurity guys picked out the only guy using a Leica ("you there with the strange camera") and wanted to exclude him. Only the fact that the minister himself had once worked as some kind of Photographic trainee and recognised the camera as a Leica saved him from being sent away. At least that did not happen to you!
Just some Info from Europe (at least the Grman speaking part)
There is also Obamania here - the strange kind because we don´t seem to realize:
a) He´s not eligible for us as we are not American citizens! So why are we are drowned in overexcited articles on that guy?
b) It was really like a big drama to read and hear about the two candidates running for presidency......except that thjey were both democrats and the election was going to be between candidtes of different parties and not between Hillary and Obama
Just a sarcastic note how e hear of the things over here.
Just some Info from Europe (at least the Grman speaking part)
There is also Obamania here - the strange kind because we don´t seem to realize:
a) He´s not eligible for us as we are not American citizens! So why are we are drowned in overexcited articles on that guy?
b) It was really like a big drama to read and hear about the two candidates running for presidency......except that thjey were both democrats and the election was going to be between candidtes of different parties and not between Hillary and Obama
Just a sarcastic note how e hear of the things over here.
squirrel$$$bandit
Veteran
You know, I'm a rabid liberal, but if you leave out the chain gangs, pensions, and welfare, I agree with almost all of that.
Good luck to the OP on his shoot!
David Goldfarb
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That's good to know. The labs with the K-Lab processor were only offering the 1 1/3 stop push in general before it all went to Dwayne's, which doesn't use the K-Lab, from what I've seen. There was a nice article on Dwayne's with photos of the operation I think in _Super-8 Today_ magazine about a year or two ago.
feenej
Well-known
If you are a reckless person, put the film in Rodinal, 1 to 100, for two hours. It might work... Best to go to a pro lab for a one-stop push though.
35mmdelux
Veni, vidi, vici
next time I will take some fast film in anticipation of luck.
Thanks all for your insights.
Regards, Paul
Thanks all for your insights.
Regards, Paul
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Al Patterson
Ferroequinologist
A politcal rant I agree with about 90%! Always knew there were a few conservative libertarians hiding here...
I'll leave our minor disagreemnt for another thread.
Al Patterson
Ferroequinologist
Anyone who studies history will know what the USA is or was. I know about the Ottoman Empire for example, and it's been gone since long before I was born.
Of course, the average person knows the statistics of their local sports team better than either history or current events, so for those people, you might be right.
Kim Coxon
Moderator
Please don't turn this into a purely political thread. 😉
Kim
Kim
David Goldfarb
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There's always David Burnett (Speed Graphic, Holga, Rolleiflex).
Dogman
Veteran
"it's a shame that none of the washington press core shoot rangefinders -- it's all dslr --- maybe we need a rangefinder friendly whitehouse press secretary."
Actually, the local newspaper just ran a photo taken of Hillary taken in Washington. She was surrounded by the Washington news photographers, elbowing their way to another glorified mugshot. I couldn't help but notice one of the photographers out in front was using a Leica M rangefinder.
Actually, the local newspaper just ran a photo taken of Hillary taken in Washington. She was surrounded by the Washington news photographers, elbowing their way to another glorified mugshot. I couldn't help but notice one of the photographers out in front was using a Leica M rangefinder.
furcafe
Veteran
The current official White House photographer, Eric Draper occasionally uses a Leica (or @ least used to).
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39967
http://www.whitehouse.gov/ask/20030625.html
Nowadays, he's about the only photographer who can get close enough to the Prez that he can get away w/using an RF.
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39967
http://www.whitehouse.gov/ask/20030625.html
Nowadays, he's about the only photographer who can get close enough to the Prez that he can get away w/using an RF.
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