Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Welcome. If the heat gets too hot, filter them out. Let them blow away like noise in the wind. As for your coating woes, I would just cut my losses, and try to sell it cheap with full disclosure on its condition. Then buy a better one from reputable sources. If you lower the price enough, it will sell. On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Konstantin Mihov < konstantin.mihov at googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi all, I have been a member of the group for about a month and have > silently been following the threads but never chimed it and thought that > it's time to introduce myself briefly. I am one of the young Leica > enthusiasts on the board, having discovered Leica only several months ago > (besides, being young age-wise, with only 24). I have not had formal > photography training but have had art training and art theory training. I > hold a bachelor of arts in psychology and a master of arts in literary > theory degrees but work in a managerial and marketing area at a university > in Bremen, Germany. Originally, I come from Bulgaria but have been located > in the past 5 years in Germany. > > I had had very few cameras so far: my first camera and the one I had for 4 > years was a Canon EOS 300D and it served its purpose great until October > when I decided it was high-time for an upgrade. The Canon 300D has been a > very faithful servant throughout my work with chocolate artist Warren > Laine-Naida and his book publication for which I did the photography ( > http://www.chocolatecheese.de). At that time, I got a Canon EOS 500D but > was > disappointed with it - it did not feel like a new camera compared to the > 300D - the only new feature was the video capability which wasn't important > to me at all. At that time I decided to shop around a bit and I discovered > Leica - of course I had heard of it before but I did never consider it > because of the price. I was however able to afford one now and in January I > got a Leica M8 and have been since then experimenting with a number of > lenses (all vintage). Have tried a cron 90, a cron 50, a Voitlanger 50 f1.1 > but none of these felt right until I discovered a pristine cron 50 from the > 80s which is currently the one I am using (I have in the meantime returned > all others). I love the bokeh of it and how it renders portraits. > > I recently made a purchasing mistake (as it turned out) of buying a second > hand Elmarit 28 on ebay which turned out to be in poorer condition than > described. The sale did not make use of PayPal which is probably the last > time I am allowing such a mindless transaction and none of my actions > against the seller helped in the communication. The coating of the front > lens element is severely scratched and it creates a halo in the picture - > very foggy pictures. I assume it is simply the coating and not the glass > itself but I am no specialist. I have not yet sent it to Solms for > inspection and I was wondering if any of you have experience with such > conditions and if you would recommend sending it off to Solms or to another > repair center. Do you also have an estimate of how much this may cost? > > I am looking forward to knowing you all better! I post pictures often on my > website: http://imperfiction.com > > Cheers, > KM > > -- > *** > http://imperfiction.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> blog: < http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> // portfolio: <http://www.imagecraft.com/pub/PICS/AnotherCalifornia2> // mailing lists: <http://www.imagecraft.com/contact.html> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous replies in your msgs. ]