Re: [Leica] Hi from a Newbie!

["Jerry S. Justianto" <jsjm6@cbn.net.id>]

I still remember the first time I held my dream camera (M6), and viewing  my
first picture using 35 cron ASPH.
The moment just make me ask myself "Who says that Leica is expensive?", ...
it is priceless.


- ----- Original Message -----
From: Bego Mario Garde <bego@netcologne.de>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 5:24 PM
Subject: [Leica] Hi from a Newbie!


> I thought it might be a nice idea to introduce myself*:
>
> I took my first photos, when I was 9 years old :-) (my father was a
> photo-addicted), but it's just 1.5 years ago, that I bought a Nikon F90X
and
> got more involved in photography. Great camera and I learned a lot. I
> started with "regular" color-prints, but soon begun to develop my own
> b/w-films. My fiancée, who encourages my heavily, gave me a Leica Pradovit
> 300 as X-Mas-present.
>
> The more I worked with my Nikon and the more I learned about photography,
> the more I tried to switch to manual settings -- no programms! Still I
> thought, that for weekdays photography handling all the equipment (body,
> flash-light, 24mm, 50 mm, 85mm) was too much to carry.
>
> So -- that's how I ended up with my first Leica (M6 TTL chrome with 35
> Summicron Asph.) three weeks ago.
>
> Weather here in Cologne wasn't too good in the past weeks, so until today
I
> only took a few shots with my new camera. But the results so far were
> outstanding (at least from what the camera could do! :-).
>
> The most amazing thing for me was, that pictures taken with 1/8 sec. at
> aperture 2.0 just came out perfect. No blurr or anything. I took one
picture
> of my fiancée in a corner of a church, which was only illuminated by
> candle-light. But -- Wow! -- perfect shot! Very warm tone, every detail
> visible, crisp sharp. I never would have made that picture with my Nikon
> F90X.
> (BTW -- I ordered a Abrahamsson Softrelease today (i.e. sent a letter to
> him). I'm very curious, if this still will improve the outstanding results
> with available light.)
>
> In the shop, where I bought my camera I was taught to set the rangefinder
to
> infinite, which works great. But the rest of camera-handling still is
quite
> confusing for me. Should I start with aperture setting oder the time
value?
>
> Probably it's so confusing, because I first set the aperture (which seems
to
> be more important to me), second set the time value and then find out,
that
> it is 1/2 f-stop, that I have to correct. So I have to correct the
> aperture -- which makes it an endless process! Any suggestions? Or do I
just
> have to get used to this procedure?
>
> Bego Mario Garde
> Cologne, Germany
>
> * PS.: Oops! I just recognized, that I only wrote about my cameras -- I'm
36
> years old, work at the marketing department of a private bank and live
near
> Cologne. Besides photography we -- my fiancée an I -- love to travel.
Well,
> guess that's it for the moment. :-)
>
>
>