Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> >>>Wouldn't a radioactive element in a lens cause film fog? Seems > strange > that > it should be purposely built in...<<< > > > The earliest Super-Takumars for the Spotmatic had a radioactive element. > Roger Hicks says that if you let it sit for a while on a sheet of > Polaroid and then pull the Polaroid, you can see a faint shadow. I've > never tried it. > > - --Mike > If I wrote up a cogent artist's statement, are there galleries that would exhibit and sell this kind of work? "Faint shadows" sounds like a wonderfully evocative title for such a show. BTW, I'm still pissed that after almost 50 years of development the M camera still doesn't have TTL viewing. What's with this dopey viewfinder/rangefinder crap? Short of a straight viewfinder and scale focusing, that has to be the most antiquated and inaccurate sighting/focusing method imaginable. Every other camera manufacturer seems to have figured this out; Herbert Keppler in Popular Photography has figured this out; heck, even Leica Camera has figured this out -- they make R cameras don't they? So what's with this stupid, old-fashioned M6? It just burns me up. And what makes it worse is I didn't realize what a hopeless camera the M6 was to use before I bought a second one. Now you tell me! Rob Schneider