New York NYC March Meet-Up

Range-rover said:
I check mine out tonight and it's not a digital, but a nice filter none the less, besides
it's hard finding these Heliopan used and in great shape!
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Bob,

Double luck for me because of the size I needed (82mm) and the nomenclature "Digital."

Anyways the only way to find out buying used is to make the trip and try your luck.

I am now next on the list for the 50 Lux-SL.

Cal
 
Good news, can't wait to see that lens. In the mean time I'm totally enjoying the
X-Pro1, did a few prints which I hardly do and they do come out nice.
 
Calzone said:
So Christian informs me he saw the shot of "Maggie" taken by Terry Richardson for Valentino Eyewear on Instagram.



Cal
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Cal, it's a little sad if you need your friends to inform you that your girlfriend is hanging out with Terry Richardson.
You know that you can see Instagram posts on the internet as well:
https://instagram.com/p/BQ2oy94Dj5f/
 
CNNY said:
Cal, it's a little sad if you need your friends to inform you that your girlfriend is hanging out with Terry Richardson.
You know that you can see Instagram posts on the internet as well:
https://instagram.com/p/BQ2oy94Dj5f/
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Christian,

I get bombarded by all that is happening. Sadly I can't keep track of everything. Anyways the Fashion blackout continues, meanwhile there are bookings that currently are out to May that require jumping on a plane.

I wonder if this one particular "option" will become a "call sheet" at the last moment that involves use of a passport.

It is at a point that it is getting hard to schedule in a vacation. Not sure if a year from now if Maggie will need a day job.

BTW Maggie secured the Valentino/ Terry Richardson gig on her own without her agent as it got booked before she signed with Elite.

Cal
 
Range-rover said:
Good news, can't wait to see that lens. In the mean time I'm totally enjoying the
X-Pro1, did a few prints which I hardly do and they do come out nice.
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GEAR ALERT: Leica 50 Lux-SL. This lens is only about half an inch shorter than the 24-90 zoom and a wopping 2.6 ounces lighter. I will call this lens the "Porker" because of its size and weight.

Did you know that Leica gives a free gym membership with each native SL lens it sells. By the summmer I should be buff. LOL.

So the lens should be at my dealer Tuesday or Wednesday the latest. I am arranging for shipping so I might have the Porker for the Meet-Up.

As you know I already have the Heliopan "Digital" filter in 82mm.

Cal
 
jsrockit said:
Should be fun to see that set-up Cal.
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John,

It gives you a chance to make fun of me. You coined the term "Monster" to describe my cameras. LOL.

Kinda like a Leica "Q" with a double dose of steroids and implants. LOL. Not a small camera.

Anyways my right arm will get more oversized than it already is.

Cal
 
I have been printing and have some new prints. At this pint I have several hundreds of pounds of prints. LOL.

I'll be bringing a surplus F3HP that is fresh. This camera has been recovered in "Prada" Italian goat leather and features a US postage stamp of Ray Charles in the film reminder window. Comes with or without DK-17 VF'er magnifier. A very clean camera that I replaced the foam seals. Good to go, and priced right with body cap. Currently has a Red Dot "K" screen.

So the F5 I got from Joe that I have not paid for yet (barter deal) that I bragged I got by creating camera futures or options, basically bumped the F3 HP. I really love the F5, and I ordered a "E" screen with AF markers that features a grid on the screen. It seems this screen is not as polished as the stock F5 screen making it a lot like the screen I currently prefer in my F3P. The F5 has become my main film SLR. I think with the new "E" screen the VF'er will rival my F3P, and that means the Noct-Nikkor will be extra deadly.

Seems like my taste in cameras has become more SLR centric since getting the SL. Really grooving the SLR glass, the accurate framing, the closer focus abilities, and the exploitation of bokeh.

I have a new print of this old man who lives on my street. Basically another "Landscape-Face." I kinda have a plan to give this old-timer a nice print, but I'm scheming to maybe photograph many of my neighbors that are long time residents. Bruce Davidson did some important work on East 100th Street that depicted the poverty of 1969, but I have been embedded for about 5 years on East 101st Street as a gentrifier. So anyways I'm kinda looking for an opening to expand this project of photographing the locals.

Cal
 
Calzone said:
Pro-Mone,

Last "Naked" camera I brought to a Meet-Up was a Leica II with nickle hardware.

Cal
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Mine is the 3.5F I bought recently. It's stripped down and doesn't have the leatherette on the sides. I still have to completely test it out to make sure everything is ok. The shutter is very very quiet. Still getting used to the ergonomics. It feels a little different from the 2.8
 
stompyq said:
Mine is the 3.5F I bought recently. It's stripped down and doesn't have the leatherette on the sides. I still have to completely test it out to make sure everything is ok. The shutter is very very quiet. Still getting used to the ergonomics. It feels a little different from the 2.8
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Pro-Mone,

To me the 2.8's feel rather big and heavy, and there is definitely a different feel to a 3.5 over a 2.8. I imagine the smaller and lightr 3.5 feels a bit awkward to you because you have bonded to a 2.8.

I forgot to mention the famed M4 that I bought for no money from Adorama that had an original "L" seal. I had that camera overhauled by Sherry, and then I sold it to Andre who recovered the camera.

Of course the half missing covering annoyed people, and because it is my style to be annoying, I grew to like the rawness. On this M4 it was rather remarkable because inside the camera was factory fresh and because it had never been hacked up like so many other cameras, the ratty covering really annoyed people.

I created an annoying name for that M4 that today I don't remember. LOL. What a great camera. I had Sherry change the film advance lever to a M3 style.

Cal
 
Cal, is that the same F3hp that I couldn't switch on, and load film into? I think I'm just not sophisticated enough to use Nikons.
Perhaps you should photograph the rich people on East 100th street. That would compliment the Davidson project nicely.


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See you all this Sunday. I will bring my new cell phone in order to show you that it beats the SL, the M240, Nikon D610, etc.
 
CNNY said:
Cal, is that the same F3hp that I couldn't switch on, and load film into? I think I'm just not sophisticated enough to use Nikons.
Perhaps you should photograph the rich people on East 100th street. That would compliment the Davidson project nicely.


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Christian,

Yep, it is the same F3 HP. It is a rather primitive camera by today's standards.

I would love to photograph some of the men that live down the block in the halfway house that formally was called "The Parole Transition Institute." I befriended one of the guys and I know him by first name. Also these men really loved my beloved dog that I had to muzzle. Beagle-Face was an aggressive 14-15 pound dog, and in the 13 months we had him before we had to put him down, if he didn't wear a muzzle he would of bit hundreds of people. Every day was fraught for this animal.

When I explained to these ex felons that he was abused, then abandoned, and that there already were two reported instances that the three strikes and your out rule would be inforced and he would be taken away and put down. Anyways for these men it seems we all had an understanding.

It seems everyone in my neighborhood knew my dog and he was truely famous, but it was understood that he was a hard core rescue case, and everyone in my hood was rooting for him.

Pretty much all the rich people in my neighborhood live in my building of 40 units which also includes a $1.8 million penthouse that was bought by some rich guy that is currently appears vacant and uninhabited.

My friend Tony tells me that East 101st Street use to be segrigated and that on one side of the street lived Italians and on the other Blacks. Street fighting happened on a block by block basis, and going uptown by oneself kinda insured getting beaten up. Then Latinos moved in...

Sunshine Park was created when a tenement fire spread to a few adjoining buildings and the buildings were later torn down. More or less this city park is used as a dog run and is filled with dog poop.

The site where my building was built use to be a vacant lot where some vagrant set up an automotive repair shanty. Then the land was developed and a Social Security office building was built, but that Social Security building was eventually closed and condemed due to a rat infestation that could not be mitigated. I imagine the auto repair shanty resembled something like the ones that existed in Willet's Point, but in Madhattan.

When I first rented my unit the building was rent stabilized. I felt rather lucky because having a two year old modern rent stabilized apartment in NYC is way beyond a miracle, especially in units that were built as luxury condos, but the rent stabilization got unwound when the building went condo.

My building was completed in 2008, one year after the housing bubble, and during that time the developers applied for a tax abatement, and that is how a luxury condo building became rent stabilized.

On Lexington Avenue between East 100th and East 101st the entire block had vacant storefronts save one. Today none are vacant and it has become a restaurant row of sorts.

Still I see news stories of muggings, attempted rapes, and even killings around the perimeter of a few blocks away. On East 101st Street is the Children's Aid Society, and I see the food lines from my apartment window.

On one block is a lot of history. Funny thing is that East Harlem is the fastest growing Asian community in NYC, due to cheap housing. When I first moved in there was a series of racial attacks against Asians right in my neighborhood where the beatings were rather savage and involved robbery. At one point on every block at every intersection up and down the avenues cop cars could be seen with their lights flashing to show a strong presence to quell the hate crimes.

They eventually caught the long time local who was responsible for basically beating up tiny Chinese immigrants. Lyn was really worried for a while because the reports of attacks were so frequent and so close.

So to annoy people I printed some really great bokeh shots. LOL. Interesting to see the rendering of the 50 Lux "E60" and Nikon 28/1.4 AF-D. Very-very pretty rendering.

Cal
 
jsrockit said:
See you all this Sunday. I will bring my new cell phone in order to show you that it beats the SL, the M240, Nikon D610, etc.
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John,

No shortage of annoying people in NYC. Don't get beat up in Chile. LOL. Oh what entertainment value reading all the camera fights. "My camera is the best," I tell ya. LOL. Also let me control the market and tell people how to spend their money.

Cal
 
Interesting story Cal. Didn't know that your block was essentially new and indeed it is a miracle.
I have to keep up with my PhD friend to know when and how he is moving to NYC. He'll be at Columbia's housing for students so I guess upper East side.
I did leave that area unexplored but seems rather good. West good, sketchy East. Did NYC want to have a sort of Cold war setting with this arrangement?

Calzone said:
John,

No shortage of annoying people in NYC. Don't get beat up in Chile. LOL. Oh what entertainment value reading all the camera fights. "My camera is the best," I tell ya. LOL. Also let me control the market and tell people how to spend their money.

Cal
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Rather well timing as I have a friend trying to get me into an argument thru instant messaging about some burnt out skies. I say they are just in the almost threshold, with some cyan and he wants to take me by the highlights. Damned Ektar. I counterattack with his reiterate underexposure and lack of exposure knowledge.

What a bunch I've in my town.
 
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