Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Edward Caliguri wrote: > > Mark- > Do you also call it "your Precious" and talk using "We" when you use ? > > "We must keep us safe, my Precious, yes .... with a UV filter, Yesss? Only a > Leica UVa filter for Us my Precious! No, Not Tiffin, Nooo! Only Leica, YESSS > - LEICA!!" > :-) > Ed Ed Hi! I don't see any other "Mark's" on the list is the above "quote" representing what I think or where I'm at? Maybe a little bit mostly I'm going to defend myself and say you didn't exactly hit the nail on the head (I'm the nail) OK I do have little issues that I'm behind or don't like as I do give the whole photography thing a lot of thought. I'm totally down on UV filters. I don't own one. If i was at the end of a pier with salt spray i might use a yellow-green or any number of filters on my lens which would both protect it and really do something to the image other than screw it up. If it was color I'd use a warming filter. That cuts thought a ton of UV and that is needed. Yes you do remember correctly I'm not so fond of Tiffen as that lamination thing with the gel inside sure does not sound good to me in principle. Way too many added air to glass surfaces and I'm not sure if air to gel surface means anything. I like simplicity. I don't like a gel squeezed in between to sheets of glass. I like a sheet of glass colored the appropriate color. But I've got quite a few of them, i buy them in a pinch off those racks when i need one NOW. Someday to be replaced by a B+W or even better an esoteric Heliopan filter I hope!. Normally when I order a B+W filter from B&H (confusing i know) I order it with the super multi coated anti scratch coating which costs me an extra ten bucks and 2 weeks. As the front elements of many molded Asph Leica lense come from Hoya and Hoya has a new premium filter line it does not to me seem so inappropriate to get a Hoya filter. At least its a solid sheet of glass! And you'd two sheets of Hoya glass next to each other. They wont be so lonely everybodys talking German in the camera bag! All my Leica filters and I have several cost me 10 or 15 bucks each. I get them at swap meets. Many say N.Y. Leica on them I doubt their coatings are anything to bring home to mom about. I shoot with my Hasselblads far more then i shoot with my Leicas. I try to contain myself on this on the LUG but it leaks out sometimes and there are rumors. When I get my Rolleiflex F CLA'd that will change. I just think it's not so obvious and kind of stupid to be getting all involved with Leica discussions and looking at Leica pictures... on the Nikon list. And visa versa. It's the Leica users group. I come here to talk Leica. That said I'm new to Leica, only ten years. My body of work you can take a peak at on my website goes back 38 years to 1965 I was 13 with my first darkroom. So there are Voigtländer Vito BL shots which I got then and even a few Instamatic 100 shots from a bit before. Then Nikon. And Rolleiflex. Then Hasselblad. I shoot sometimes with a pocket Rollei 35. I have a nice Calumet Cambo 4x5 sheet film with a Fuji lens. My most recent "project" was done with it. The Hallowween thing which is in my website. The Fuji lens may have to go there is a ring of bubbles around the perimeter so it would seem to be separating. Still takes better pictures than my Hasselblads and Leicas combined. I have an Olympus FT single frame camera which i use now and then. Mostly "then." Astonishingly mediocre optics for such a small image circle. Not as sharp as my Nikon optics with the bigger image circle. So I'm sorry Ed if you've gotten too used to me or i seem too dogmatic. (woof) I get sick of myself sometimes too. I hope this post straightens some stuff out for the Rabinerisly disenchanted. Mark Rabiner Portland, Oregon USA http://www.rabinergroup.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html