[Leica] Mark - I hope I'm still in The Fellowship!

[Edward Caliguri <caliguri@rcn.com>]

Mark!
    Take it EASY! It was just a joke!! Guess you are not an 'over the top'
Lord of the Rings fan as I am!! Your talking to a lens was funny, and
sounded so "Gollum"-ish !!!
    Maybe "My Precious" needs to be reserved to only a Noctilux user ....
:-)

Ed (In jest of course! Now the Lens Wraiths will be after me!)

> Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 18:23:02 -0700
> From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] MarK's 35 -"One lens to Rule them All"
> Message-ID: <3E90D2F5.9CEAD05@rabinergroup.com>
> References: <BAB63816.A187%caliguri@rcn.com>
> 
> Edward Caliguri wrote:
>> 
>> Mark-
>> Do you also call it "your Precious" and talk using "We" when you use ?
>> 
>> "We must keep us safe, my Precious, yes .... with a UV filter, Yesss? Only a
>> Leica UVa filter for Us my Precious! No, Not Tiffin, Nooo! Only Leica, YESSS
>> -  LEICA!!"
>> :-)
>> Ed
> 
> 
> Ed Hi! I don't see any other "Mark's" on the list is the above "quote"
> representing what I think or where I'm at?
> Maybe a little bit mostly I'm going to defend myself and say you didn't
> exactly hit the nail on the head (I'm the nail)
> OK
> I do have little issues that I'm behind or don't like as I do give the
> whole photography thing a lot of thought.
> I'm totally down on UV filters. I don't own one. If i was at the end of
> a pier with salt spray i might use a yellow-green or any number of
> filters on my lens which would both protect it and really do something
> to the image other than screw it up.
> If it was color I'd use a warming filter. That cuts thought a ton of UV
> and that is needed.
> 
> Yes you do remember correctly I'm not so fond of Tiffen as that
> lamination thing with the gel inside sure does not sound good to me in
> principle. Way too many added air to glass surfaces and I'm not sure if
> air to gel surface means anything. I like simplicity. I don't like a gel
> squeezed in between to sheets of glass. I like a sheet of glass colored
> the appropriate color.
> But I've got quite a few of them, i buy them in a pinch off those racks
> when i need one NOW. Someday to be replaced by a B+W or even better an
> esoteric  Heliopan filter I hope!.
> Normally when I order a B+W filter from B&H (confusing i know) I order
> it with the super multi coated anti scratch coating which costs me an
> extra ten bucks and 2 weeks.
> As the front elements of many molded Asph Leica lense come from Hoya and
> Hoya has a new premium filter line it does not to me seem so
> inappropriate to get a Hoya filter. At least its a solid sheet of glass!
> And you'd two sheets of Hoya glass next to each other. They wont be so
> lonely everybodys talking German in the camera bag!
> All my Leica filters and I have several cost me 10 or 15 bucks each. I
> get them at swap meets. Many say N.Y. Leica on them I doubt their
> coatings are anything to bring home to mom about.
> 
> I shoot with my Hasselblads far more then i shoot with my Leicas. I try
> to contain myself on this on the LUG but it leaks out sometimes and
> there are rumors.
> When I get my Rolleiflex F CLA'd that will change.
> 
> I just think it's not so obvious and kind of stupid to be getting all
> involved with Leica discussions and looking at Leica pictures...
> on the Nikon list.
> 
> And visa versa.
> 
> It's the Leica users group. I come here to talk Leica.
> That said I'm new to Leica, only ten years. My body of work you can take
> a peak at on my website goes back 38 years to 1965 I was 13 with my
> first darkroom. So there are Voigtländer Vito BL shots which I got then
> and even a few Instamatic 100 shots from a bit before. Then Nikon. And
> Rolleiflex. Then Hasselblad.
> I shoot sometimes with a pocket Rollei 35.
> I have a nice Calumet Cambo 4x5 sheet film with a Fuji lens. My most
> recent "project" was done with it. The Hallowween thing which is in my
> website. The Fuji lens may have to go there is a ring of bubbles around
> the perimeter so it would seem to be separating. Still takes better
> pictures than my Hasselblads and Leicas combined.
> I have an Olympus FT single frame camera which i use now and then.
> Mostly "then." Astonishingly mediocre optics for such a small image
> circle. Not as sharp as my Nikon optics with the bigger image circle.
> 
> So I'm sorry Ed if you've gotten too used to me or i seem too dogmatic.
> (woof) I get sick of myself sometimes too. I hope this post straightens
> some stuff out for the Rabinerisly disenchanted.
> 
> Mark Rabiner
> Portland, Oregon USA
> http://www.rabinergroup.com
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