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Subject: [Leica] Moskva-5 (Was: It's a film camera)
From: leica at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig)
Date: Sat Feb 2 12:28:27 2008
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Daniel

Thanks a lot for taking the time. I believe you have cured me from buying 
one ... nevertheless the pictures look very good.

Didier





>Handling?
>
>I am not sure you can handle it. It is the most awkward piece of
>equipment I have ever used (I've never tried to shoot a basketball
>game using the ground glass of Jim's 11x14 view camera, but I suspect
>it might be slightly less convenient to handle).
>
>Reliability. If you get one that works, it will keep working. The
>shutter sounds so strong you could probably use it to crop off the end
>of a cuban cigar before lighting it. It carries a strong chop.
>
>If the rangefinder works (mine does) it is perfect. If it doesn't
>work, it is probably almost impossible to adjust. There are a lot of
>little gears that need to be matched. Dante Stella has a write up on
>this somewhere.
>
>Light-tight? It suffers the same fate as all folders with bellows, no
>matter who makes them. The bellows can crack and leak out darkness.
>Mine works just fine.
>
>The big negative is wonderful.
>
>Here's one at a very slow shutter speed. It's in the Bessa album, but
>it is taken with the Moskva-5
>
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/dlridings/Bessa-I/05v47_0009.jpg.html
>
>Some more ...
>
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/dlridings/album08/05v49_0018.jpg.html
>
>Another slow shutter speed shot (almost all my pictures are taken with
>slow shutter speeds, come to think of it)
>
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/dlridings/album08/05v47_0008.jpg.html
>
>If you search the archives for Moskva-5 and Slobodan, you will find
>some of his revealing comments about the beast.
>
>Daniel
>
>
>On Feb 2, 2008 9:00 PM, Didier Ludwig <leica@screengang.com> wrote:
>> Daniel
>> Do you have experiences with the Moskva-5? Handling, reliability of 
>> rangefinder, light-tightness? Just curious, because this camera always 
>> lusted me.
>> TIA
>> Didier
>>
>>
>> >Not really, Jerry. I mentioned the Moskva-5 and the Zeiss Ikon it was
>> >a knock-off of:
>> >http://www.cosmonet.org/camera/mosc_e.htm
>> >Daniel
>>
>>
>>
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In reply to: Message from richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard Man) ([Leica] It's a film camera! Rangefinder at that!)
Message from hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson) ([Leica] It's a film camera! Rangefinder at that!)
Message from dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] It's a film camera! Rangefinder at that!)
Message from hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson) ([Leica] It's a film camera! Rangefinder at that!)
Message from dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] It's a film camera! Rangefinder at that!)
Message from jhnichols at bellsouth.net (Jim Nichols) ([Leica] It's a film camera! Rangefinder at that!)
Message from glehrer at san.rr.com (Jerry Lehrer) ([Leica] It's a film camera! Rangefinder at that!)
Message from dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] It's a film camera! Rangefinder at that!)
Message from leica at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig) ([Leica] Moskva-5 (Was: It's a film camera))
Message from dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] Moskva-5 (Was: It's a film camera))