[Leica] Thanks...

[grdalton at hotmail.com (Gary Dalton)]

My great uncle used the M2 to photograph the outdoors (e.g. Yosemite, Kings 
Canyon, the High Sierra, Death Valley, Bryce, etc.) I might follow his 
lead... But, I am also interested in urban architecture and the people in 
that environment...

Before all of that. I need to know if the M2 still works. This particular 
"hammer" hasn't been used in 20 years, and the "hammerer" (me) has never 
used this particular hammer before... (or shall we call it a "hammera" at 
this point?)

So, to start with, I'm going to shoot with each of my five lenses at 
different f-stops and speeds. I'll record that data and compare it with the 
prints to see what I've got...

How's that sound for a starting point?







> From: imagist3@mac.com
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Thanks...
> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 16:02:20 -0600
> To: lug@leica-users.org
> 
> A reasonable point
> to consider
> Mark.
> 
> However, sometimes one can
> simply pick up either hammer
> go out to the shed
> and discover
> what it works well for
> and what it does not.
> 
> NOTE: do not attempt pounding impact
> with the nail pulling tongs on the framing hammer.
> and
> do not expect to pull nails with either end of the ball peen hammer.
> other than that
> both can pound a nail
> and damage just about anything.
> 
> ; ~ )
> 
> Fond regards,
> George
> 
> george@imagist.com
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> 
> 
> 
> On Jan 9, 2009, at 3:49 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> 
> > Shooting what?!
> >
> > Do you blow up your photos very large at all? Put them on your  
> > walls down
> > the hall? Make a little portfolio which you bring to coffee shops?
> >
> > A discussion of cameras is like a discussion of hammers; fairly  
> > meaningless
> > without any application mentioned at all. They are just tools to do  
> > a job.
> > The big point is
> > THE JOB!!!
> >
> > Are we photographing Fire Hydrants which we print letter sized and  
> > put in
> > little box to show people? In that case or in any case a discussion  
> > of what
> > camera to use has much more meaning. We know what you're doing with  
> > it.
> >
> > We are always discussing in effect:
> > Which camera to use.....
> > But the sentence is never finished.
> > Its recurrent permanent hanging chads.
> >
> > Which camera to shoot fire hydrants.  -
> >
> > to me is a compete sentence; a complete thought. Which can replied to
> > intelligently
> >
> > (I'm getting tired of my ball peen hammer and I'm going to trade it  
> > in for a
> > framing hammer.) Meaningless.
> > As we wonder if any framing is really going to be done or any metal  
> > is going
> > to be pounded out.  In the end its often the case that there is  
> > rarely any
> > wood nor metal which enters the situation.
> >
> >
> > Mark William Rabiner
> >
> >> So, I'm going to buy some film and simply start shooting again.  
> >> It's time to
> >> find out what the camera and its lenses can do...(not to mention  
> >> the guy
> >> behind the lens...)
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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