Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/09

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Nathan's PAW 6: Straying from the true path
From: Craig Zeni <clzeni@mindspring.com>
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 08:27:41 -0500

At 07:19 AM 2/9/2003, you wrote:
>None of this week's three pictures was taken with a Leica, oh horror! In 
>fact, all three images come from a roll of Ilford Delta 100 which I shot 
>with my newly acquired Commie Camera, an East German Pentacon Six TL (as 
>the name implies, it is a 6x6 medium format camera). I bought it from a 
>guy in the Ukraine with an 80mm normal lens, and added a 50mm wide angle 
>from the Czech Republic--in total at a cost lower than a single Hasselblad 
>magazine, even counting the CLA that the camera needs. So, here are three 
>images from last week's snow which transformed the landscape around here 
>into something wonderful:
>
>http://www.wajsman.com/2003_6.jpg
>http://www.wajsman.com/2003_6alt1.jpg
>http://www.wajsman.com/2003_6alt2.jpg
>
>All three with the 50mm Carl Zeiss Jena Flektagon, the first two handheld, 
>the last one on tripod. There is something neat about shooting with a 
>camera from the early 1970s, produced at a company and in a country, which 
>no longer exist. But I am no collector; I bought this outfit because it 
>provides solid value for money in MF photography. I promise to be good and 
>return to the True Path of Leica next week.

Neat and COLD stuff.  But stop singing gladly about the Commie Glass - 
everybody will want one!  I have the special Versace Model Kiev 60 that 
uses the same lens mount...bought essentially to use the 30mm Arsat fisheye 
you see on it this photo http://www.mindspring.com/~clzeni/rm/Superfly.jpg 
...lens was $210 delivered to my door.  The wild camera covering is the 
result of a misunderstanding between myself and Hartblei in Prague...


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