Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Curtain repair: I have had good results patching holes and tears in shutter curtains with vinyl fabric paint-flat black- available from craft shops for about three bucks a jar. It also has done a super job stopping pinhole light leaks on bellows. Mike-re "The M of SLRs". I have owned a half dozen of the different incarnations of the Pentax Spotmatic. The best was the F model that allowed metering on an open aperature with the appropriate lenses and took a more available Hg battery. I found edge sharpness of the Super Takumar lenses inferior to Canon and Nikon, and of course Leica products of the same vintage. Recently I got a Canon AT-1 which is a manual A series body with the match needle metering of the Spotmatics. I prefer the needle metering over LEDs because you know where you are + or - at all times and it seems more natural to crank in exposure compensation for the subject when the meter is working all the time. I think it was on this list somebody said a Spotmatic was all the camera people would need. Bill Lawlor - --