Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Having decided to keep holding up my wooden cross to digital cameras for fear of not ever using my beautiful film cameras again, I bought a Gepe Hand Mounting Unit (Art 8209), as per the link. http://www.gepe.com/english/120.htm This thing is so good and for mounting slides it's reinforced my wooden cross for some time, at least until they get that M8 properly sorted out, or the bugs out of the R10 at some point. Yesterday morning I mounted hundreds of trannies that had been piling up in sleeves because it had been such a drag to do in the past. Still, my wife and I drove a friend and with her new Nikon D200 to our kids' school on Friday so we could photograph their kindergarten graduation. With only 12 shots left on the roll of Astia in my MP I wasn't going to waste any. I said, "We need to get closer. My flash is saying we're marginal, even at f2." She said, "Looks all right to me" and held the back of her Nikon in front of my face. I thought, "You're already shooting?" Right there was proof that her shots were going to be properly exposed. Mine are in the lab over the weekend and I'm a bit worried that my flash, used on auto, might have left the Astia underexposed. Hmmm. :-| Rick.