Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/01/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Neal, You said you were testing to see which one you would hold onto. Maybe all of them ... for the spare parts. I agree ... an old MF camera is so much more usable than a LSM. Daniel On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Neal Friedenthal wrote: > Daniel, > > The first one I got a few years ago in a small camera shop in Ahman Jordan, it was cheap and I bought it on a whim. I never shot with it until recently and I was amazed by the results. The others > and the additional lenses I've gotten off of e-bay, mostly from dealers in the former Soviet Union. It takes about two weeks for delivery and so far the items that I've purchased have been received in > good order, but hell for $45 or $50 for a complete camera how can you go wrong? And yes I'm having a ball with them. With a little bit of shopping you can put together a one camera, four lens (35, > 50, 85, 135) with a universal finder for around $200. A used Summitar will cost you more than that and frankly these are more usable cameras than LTM's (and I've got several of them). > > Neal F > > On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 15:07:25 +0100 (MET), Daniel Ridings wrote: > > >Neal, > > >They really look fine! > > >Where are you picking these cameras up? You're getting great results with > >them (and seem to be having fun too:) ) > > >Daniel Ridings > > > >On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Neal Friedenthal wrote: > > >> I has several Kiev contaxes now so I'm running tests to see which two I will keep. This image was taken with a Kiev 4a and a 53mm f2 jupiter 8 lens. I printed this up to a 13 x 19 on my Epson > 2200 and > >> it is tack sharp. > >> > >> http://photoneal.com/photos/misc/tn/arch1.jpg.html > >> > >> What do you think, Not bad for a $50 camera, huh? > >> > >> Neal F > >> > >> > >> -- > >> To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > >> > > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html