Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/02/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Daniel Thanks a lot for taking the time. I believe you have cured me from buying one ... nevertheless the pictures look very good. Didier >Handling? > >I am not sure you can handle it. It is the most awkward piece of >equipment I have ever used (I've never tried to shoot a basketball >game using the ground glass of Jim's 11x14 view camera, but I suspect >it might be slightly less convenient to handle). > >Reliability. If you get one that works, it will keep working. The >shutter sounds so strong you could probably use it to crop off the end >of a cuban cigar before lighting it. It carries a strong chop. > >If the rangefinder works (mine does) it is perfect. If it doesn't >work, it is probably almost impossible to adjust. There are a lot of >little gears that need to be matched. Dante Stella has a write up on >this somewhere. > >Light-tight? It suffers the same fate as all folders with bellows, no >matter who makes them. The bellows can crack and leak out darkness. >Mine works just fine. > >The big negative is wonderful. > >Here's one at a very slow shutter speed. It's in the Bessa album, but >it is taken with the Moskva-5 > >http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/dlridings/Bessa-I/05v47_0009.jpg.html > >Some more ... > >http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/dlridings/album08/05v49_0018.jpg.html > >Another slow shutter speed shot (almost all my pictures are taken with >slow shutter speeds, come to think of it) > >http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/dlridings/album08/05v47_0008.jpg.html > >If you search the archives for Moskva-5 and Slobodan, you will find >some of his revealing comments about the beast. > >Daniel > > >On Feb 2, 2008 9:00 PM, Didier Ludwig <leica@screengang.com> wrote: >> Daniel >> Do you have experiences with the Moskva-5? Handling, reliability of >> rangefinder, light-tightness? Just curious, because this camera always >> lusted me. >> TIA >> Didier >> >> >> >Not really, Jerry. I mentioned the Moskva-5 and the Zeiss Ikon it was >> >a knock-off of: >> >http://www.cosmonet.org/camera/mosc_e.htm >> >Daniel >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information