Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/09

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Nathan's PAW 6: Straying from the true path
From: Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:16:48 +1100
References: <3E464764.1030209@webshuttle.ch>

>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.

I like the first best, perhaps the tripod is too restrictive. Of 
course we all noticed the lousy bokeh ;-)

BIG GRIN

Cheers
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Alastair Firkin

http://www.afirkin.com

http://www.familyofman2.com

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