Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:19 AM 2/9/2003, you wrote: >None of this week's three pictures was taken with a Leica, oh horror! In >fact, all three images come from a roll of Ilford Delta 100 which I shot >with my newly acquired Commie Camera, an East German Pentacon Six TL (as >the name implies, it is a 6x6 medium format camera). I bought it from a >guy in the Ukraine with an 80mm normal lens, and added a 50mm wide angle >from the Czech Republic--in total at a cost lower than a single Hasselblad >magazine, even counting the CLA that the camera needs. So, here are three >images from last week's snow which transformed the landscape around here >into something wonderful: > >http://www.wajsman.com/2003_6.jpg >http://www.wajsman.com/2003_6alt1.jpg >http://www.wajsman.com/2003_6alt2.jpg > >All three with the 50mm Carl Zeiss Jena Flektagon, the first two handheld, >the last one on tripod. There is something neat about shooting with a >camera from the early 1970s, produced at a company and in a country, which >no longer exist. But I am no collector; I bought this outfit because it >provides solid value for money in MF photography. I promise to be good and >return to the True Path of Leica next week. Neat and COLD stuff. But stop singing gladly about the Commie Glass - everybody will want one! I have the special Versace Model Kiev 60 that uses the same lens mount...bought essentially to use the 30mm Arsat fisheye you see on it this photo http://www.mindspring.com/~clzeni/rm/Superfly.jpg ...lens was $210 delivered to my door. The wild camera covering is the result of a misunderstanding between myself and Hartblei in Prague... - -- Craig Zeni - REPLY TO -->> clzeni at mindspring dot com http://www.trainweb.org/zeniphotos/zenihome.html http://www.mindspring.com/~clzeni/index.html In dog years, I'm dead. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html