Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html