Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A day in the life of L'Hermitage ................ you must have been twisting around trying to place and keep the verticals straight. The countryside took me back to the winter scenes in Zhivago. Thanks, B. On 15-jan-2006, at 17:28, John W. Heintz wrote: > Marty, > > I enjoyed these photos a lot. Just because I'm nosy: what film, > lens did you use - or are these digital? > > thanks, john h > > On Jan 13, 2006, at 9:26 AM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote: > >> From: "Deveney, Marty (PIRSA)" <deveney.marty@saugov.sa.gov.au> >> Subject: [Leica] st. Petersburg >> To: "'lug@leica-users.org'" <lug@leica-users.org> >> Message-ID: >> >> <9391F79182B9C443AEE92B5761E5469116D93E@sagemsg0025.sagemsmrd01.sa.go >> v.au> >> >> Content-Type: text/plain >> >> >> I was in St Petersburg in July and August. The place previously >> mentioned >> on Nevsky Prospekt had a good selection of a lot of Soviet camera >> gear, but >> I think Fedka and similar dealers that CLA the cameras at CIS >> rates and then >> on-sell them are generally a safer bet. I looked at a lot of >> cameras and >> lenses in Russia and didn't buy anything because all the lenses I >> saw that >> were mechanically okay had bad coating and the ones with good >> coating had >> wobbly barrels or other mechanical problems. I'd say a 10:1 ratio of >> unuseable to decent wouldn't be out of the realms of reality for >> the gear >> that I saw. A CLA and proper collimation would probably do >> wonders for many >> of these lenses. It also seems likely to me that a lot of the >> good stuff >> has already been sold through eBay and other sellers, particularly >> from big >> cities like St P. >> >> I may aswell point out now that some of my photos from that trip >> are here: >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Russia . There are a few in there >> which are >> less than technically perfect (or not even good, depending n your >> criteria) >> that I included as a record of the trip or just because of the >> content. >> Comments, lambasting, abuse, etc welcome. >> >> Marty > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information