post some personal photos

And Color,
You've got a great smile (not ancient at all).
Peter,
You're looking a little 'flush' in your pic - LOL.
 
I guess it is after all the straining! :p
 
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LOL Peter, that public tolilet shot of yours, doesn't matter if I've seen in more than 10 times, still cracks me up everytime I see it.

Maybe we should all take one self portrait in public toilets. So far only Todd has the guts to follow Peter. :D
 
Here is a photo of me that my friend took of me (with my camera) when we were out sailing. Not a rangefinder...Canon F1N and 85mm f/1.2L on Sensia 100.
 
My wife snapped this one last night in my tiny home office as I was scanning through the RF Forum messages with devoted cat Cinnamon snuggling in my sweater.

That's my "new" Canon G2 near my elbow, next to a black KMZ lens case with a Jupiter-8 in it, and on its other side a black leather Olympus lens case with a 1.4/40mm Pen F lens in it. The small black thing shoulder-high on the pile of catalogs is a Pentax Auto 110 with 20-40 zoom lens.
 
Joe that sounds like quite an adventurous m/c trip! I too used to ride a lot, last on a Yamaha 1100. My big trip was from Seattle up the Frazer river, through Kamloops, Banff, Moose Jaw, etc into Manitoba, then south to Rapid City to visit friends and refresh memories of the Black Hills, on to a couple days exploring Salt Lake City area, Bonneville Salt Flats, Reno, Sacramento, and home. 5100 miles in 10 days in '72 on a '70 Honda 750. I had my Olympus 35RC along!
 
Regarding motorcycles...

I rode my 1981 Yamaha Exciter 250 from Camp Pendleton, CA to Denver, CO in March, 1982. Went via I-40, along the southwest, through Arizona and New Mexico, hung a left at I-25 in Albuquerque. Took three days. Could not pull Raton Pass with the bike's low power at 55mph, had to draft behind semi trucks and motorhomes. It started to snow at Colorado Springs, I stopped and tied cardboard to my legs. Made it to Cherry Creek in Denver, pulled over in a church parking lot and fell over, I could no longer straighten my legs out . Had to call my dad to come get me and the bike with his pickup truck.

I was 23 years old, in the Marines, and just naturally assumed I could do anything. It was mostly true.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
My girlfriend Nicole congratulating me on my newest camera purchase... :rolleyes:


Roman
 
One of my rare color shots...
That's me in a camera shop in Graz, when I went to purchase my first Leica. I went with a friend, and we tested several lenses and an M6 body. This was taken with a 35/1.4 Summilux. Lot of detail was lost in scanning and resizing several times with various programs, but still... One heck of a lens! And very expensive, too!
Anyway, I ended with a nice M2 - preferred it to the M6, regardless of the built-in meter.
Seems a pretty standard situation for me - buying a new RF toy ;)
I'm obviously a fool with more money than brains :)
But, somehow, I suspect I'm not the only one around here :D
No cure, no cure.... :(

BTW, I have a scary looking self-portrait, done with Rolleiflex and a close-up attachment, which I really like. Maybe I'l post that one later... I look menacing on that one - couldn't be further from the truth - I'm really a very nice guy :)

Denis
 
Hi everyone

Frank, I do love your BMW motorbike, it's a beautiful one. And the idea of this thread is really great !

Sorry I have no plane or motorbike, but here's a pic of me taken 2 weeks ago in south of France. Well it was not a rangefinder but it's a "new" SLR Zenit model (Zenit ET + a great Helios 44M-4 Lens : 58 mm / 2) I was offered not long ago. According to the lens serial number : 90227901, this SLR is dating back from 1990.

I wish I had such a great 58 mm for my Bessa.

Laurent :D
 
Me on the Blue Ridge Parkway, last month, as the leaves were changing. Wife took photo with Nikon 995 Coolpix, I am holding a venerable Canon T60.

In case you can't read it, my shirt says "I'm not very smart, but I can lift heavy things." Wife loves it.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
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Laurent,
which qualities do you like the 58mm Helios for? The extra mm of focal lenght, the sharpness? I have a few m42-Helios lenses in different incarnations, and while not bad, they are not outstanding in any particular point - just another Planar-type (I guess...?) normal lens...
There should be affordable & good alternatives for your Bessa in M39 mount - how about a Jupiter-8? Much better bokeh, good sharpness if stopped down to at least f/4, but lower contrast (which might be a good thing if you use it mainly for portraits). Or an Industar 61L/Z (should be available for about 20 USD - with a FED-5 as oversized lens-cap - from Ebay)? VEEEEERY sharp and contrasty (possibly the most contrasty lens I own in any mount - OK, the Hexanon 40/1.8 might be close...), and it is a nominal 52mm, so a bit closer to the 58mm Helios.

Roman
 
Hi Roman.

Lucky you, you live in a beautiful city ( I've never been yet to Vienna, maybe one day). I tried a few portrait last time with the helios 44 and my girl friend was really looking great on it, details were not bad, and as it was wide open, depth of field was low, which gave a good result (light that day in south of france was wonderful too).

I recently bought a Jupiter 8 but I did not have so much time to use it. What annoys me about it it that I'm not sure it focus right, as distance reported on it is not good. I also cannot focus right at infinity, a little more is missing when I'm turning the ring. I should soon try it again.

Thank's for your very interesting advices Roman.
 
This me with my son, while I'm explaining my wife how to use a rangefinder camera ("you see that bright patch in the center? Now if you turn the lens...").
 
1971. The summer I met my wife Marion at a youth hostel (we were young then) in Bergen, Norway. We began travelling together, and have been travelling together for 33 yrs now. This is a shot Marion took of me with her Kodak Instamatic while we were canoeing in Silkeborg, Denmark that summer.

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Doug said:
My wife snapped this one last night in my tiny home office as I was scanning through the RF Forum messages with devoted cat Cinnamon snuggling in my sweater.
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Doug, you look like Richard Dreyfuss in that photo :)

Are those bullets on the shelf behind you?
Denis

PS: Love the cat!
 
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Doug, you look like Richard Dreyfuss in that photo :)

Are those bullets on the shelf behind you?
Denis

PS: Love the cat!
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I'd guess those are cartridges - check out the book titles!

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
Cartridges, bullets... English is not my native language, and firearms terminology isn't my cup of tea...
Anyway, I guessed right - bullets (still with their casings, i.e. cartridges :)).
I used to have some, too - and much bigger, too :)
Got rid of everything few years ago, when the kids came.
My war mementos... a lifetime ago...
Maybe I could find a photo from that time. Don't know if that would be appropriate, though.

Denis
 
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Hi Roman.

Lucky you, you live in a beautiful city ( I've never been yet to Vienna, maybe one day).
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Well, I guess many people like what they don't have... I think, Paris is much more beautiful than Vienna (been there a few times, but before I got into serious photography) - those wide-open boulevards, people are dressed much better than here, and I love La Defense (I'm very interested in modern architecture, and hate all that baroque kitsch here in Vienna - if it has to be old, I'd rather have the uncluttered lines of Renaissance, Gothic and Roman architecture e.g. in Italian cities...). If only Paris wasn't that expensive...

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I recently bought a Jupiter 8 but I did not have so much time to use it. What annoys me about it it that I'm not sure it focus right, as distance reported on it is not good. I also cannot focus right at infinity, a little more is missing when I'm turning the ring. I should soon try it again.

Thank's for your very interesting advices Roman. [/B]
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Hmm, I have only finished my first roll of film with my new Bessa today, so I will have to check how well it focuses with th Jupiter-8 - from looking at the distance scale, it seems to be OK, the Jupiter-9 seems to be off by a few cm, though - we'll see.
BTW, I barely use my lenses at infinity, for me, correct focus at low to medium distances is more important...

Roman
 
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