Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/11/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The Yawn and Morning Coffee. But she's getting very pale... Thanks for showing, Philippe Op 5-nov-07, om 09:56 heeft Daniel Ridings het volgende geschreven: > I'm leaving for Malawi in a couple of weeks and wanted to see how the > camera I'm taking handles strong contrasts. It is dark and dreary here > (not really, we still have some nice autumn light, but we're getting > there) and it is high summer in Malawi. Pure coincidence that my > research trips to southern African tend to fall in the nordic > November-January period. Purre coincidence. > > I picked up a Nikon D80 body for the trip. I like the size. A little > bigger than the D40x, but you get more for your money too. > > Matrix metering > > http://www.dlridings.se/paw/2007/44.html > > But there were walks through Odense and Copenhagen with a Bessa T with > a color-skopar 35/2.5 (found one in a store for about half the price > of the lens alone). > > http://dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/2007v44/07v44-0001.jpg.html > http://dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/2007v44/07v44-0002.jpg.html > http://dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/2007v44/07v44-0003.jpg.html > http://dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/2007v44/07v44-0004.jpg.html > http://dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/2007v44/07v44-0005.jpg.html > > Then there was the Zorki 1b that came in the mail. Let's not talk too > much about that. I was bored one evening, browsed around eBay and put > in a minimum bid on one. Not a whole lot different from an old Leica. > The frame spacing is nice and even with cutting points between > sprocket holes instead of in the middle of them (like most FSU > cameras). The shutter opens and closes and the rangefinder works. > > Ewa, 1/20 @ 3.5, Industar-22 (Elmar/Tessar kind of lens) > > http://dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/2007v44/07v44-0006.jpg.html > > Daniel > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >