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Subject: Re: [Leica] Nathan's PAW 6: Straying from the true path
From: Jim Hemenway <jim@hemenway.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:41:43 -0500
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Nathan:

This one is nicely frosty:
http://www.wajsman.com/2003_6alt1.jpg

If your MF Flektagon is of a similar design to the 20mm I have for my
old Rolleiflex 35, then beware of a lot of flare from rising and setting
sun, even if you are shooting 90 degrees to the sun.

- -- 
Jim - http://www.hemenway.com



Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> 
> None of this week's three pictures was taken with a Leica, oh horror! In
> fact, all three images come from a roll of Ilford Delta 100 which I shot
> with my newly acquired Commie Camera, an East German Pentacon Six TL (as
> the name implies, it is a 6x6 medium format camera). I bought it from a
> guy in the Ukraine with an 80mm normal lens, and added a 50mm wide angle
> from the Czech Republic--in total at a cost lower than a single
> Hasselblad magazine, even counting the CLA that the camera needs. So,
> here are three images from last week's snow which transformed the
> landscape around here into something wonderful:
> 
> http://www.wajsman.com/2003_6.jpg
> http://www.wajsman.com/2003_6alt1.jpg
> http://www.wajsman.com/2003_6alt2.jpg
> 
> All three with the 50mm Carl Zeiss Jena Flektagon, the first two
> handheld, the last one on tripod. There is something neat about shooting
> with a camera from the early 1970s, produced at a company and in a
> country, which no longer exist. But I am no collector; I bought this
> outfit because it provides solid value for money in MF photography. I
> promise to be good and return to the True Path of Leica next week.
> 
> The complete PAW index is at:
> http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2003.htm
> 
> and comments/critique are always welcome and appreciated.
> 
> Nathan
> --
> Nathan Wajsman
> Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland
> 
> e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch
> mobile: +41 78 732 1430
> 
> Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2003.htm
> General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm
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