Re: [Leica] Hammersley's Cricket Shoes at al.

["John Black" <jblack@ambio.net>]

On the Contax/LTM thread:  I used to look down somewhat on the used Contax
rangefinder bodies that were turning up in my local camera stores because
there were never any that were in LN-MINT shape.  All of them were beat all
to hell and dented with peeling leather and mechanically challenged innards.
It wasn't until later that I figured out (with age comes wisdom) that they
were in that kind of shape precisely BECAUSE they were used, not bought and
put on a shelf.  We see the same thing in gun collecting.  A military arm
that is too pristine was never issued.  The dog-eared one was effective!

I have never owned nor used a Contax rangefinder but have respect for their
obvious accomplishments.

Screwmounts uber alles!

JB
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@neteze.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>; <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 1999 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Hammersley's Cricket Shoes at al.


> At 09:05 AM 11/20/99 +0000, Mike Johnston wrote:
> >Again, I wonder if someone could please supply the date of the R4's
> >introduction. Adams died in 1984, I believe.
>
> The R4 was introduce in 1980, about the same time as the F3 and the LX.
> Adams died on Easter Sunday, 1984. I remember where I was when I heard the
> news. The only picture I've seen in print by Ansel and his R4 is a picture
> of a rock at Point Lobos. It looks like an egg in a nest.
>
> And his concern for absolute image quality was always compromised by his
> use of HC-110 dil. B and Tri-X with 35mm. He said he was so familiar with
> it that he just didn't want to mess with anything else. Or was that John
> Sexton reporting Ansel saying that? I don't remember. HC-110 dil. B and
> 35mm Tri-X are excessively grainy IMO.
>
>
> Eric Welch
> Carlsbad, CA
>
> http://www.neteze.com/ewelch
>
> The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances...a tiny
relationship
> - either a harmony or a disharmony - that creates a picture. -Ernst Haas,
> "More Joy of Photography"
>
>