Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's a new island.... new culture... new language, including the linguistic short-hand of acronyms... Thanks for sharing your sense of things... > Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 19:03:36 -0500 > Subject: Re: [Leica] Thanks... > From: mark@rabinergroup.com > To: lug@leica-users.org > > I was a photographer for 30 years and never heard the term "CLA" anywhere. > Central Linguistics agency? > But joined gear lists and thought it was a nice little acronym and started > using it myself. None of my photographer friends of course had any clue > what > I was talking about but I'd tell them the little secret. > But I believe the term has firmly kicked in... Not because of me.... > And has become much more common in the vernacular. > So its one of the few acronyms I fall sway to. > > On this list perhaps there are lots of engineers. Is that it? > And the porpoise is not to communicate; as what happens in cult like > environs. > The purpose is to impress others by how many acronyms one can have in one > post. But its calmed down a bit. Possibly because I make a big deal about > it > most times. And a few others are starting two. > A post is an email on a list. > > A crisp one is Post Tostie. > > > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > From: Gary Dalton <grdalton@hotmail.com> > > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > > Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 15:07:09 -0800 > > To: <lug@leica-users.org> > > Subject: RE: [Leica] Thanks... > > > > > > Okay... Good advice... > > > > This next question should provide you with a better context for this > > email > > exchange: > > > > What is a "CLA?" > > > > > > (Did I tell you that I am a rookie?) > > > > > > > > > > > >> From: ricc@embarqmail.com > >> To: lug@leica-users.org > >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Thanks... > >> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 17:44:26 -0500 > >> > >> > >> On Jan 9, 2009, at 5:30 PM, Gary Dalton wrote: > >> > >>> 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? > >> > >> Deadly boring. > >> > >> Lenses: Twist the aperture rings back and forth and rack the focus a > >> few times each. If they work, they work. > >> > >> If one is inoperative or overly tight, get a CLA. > >> > >> Shutter: Give it a few clicks at each speed to exercise it. You can > >> likely tell if it's pretty close to right by looking and listening. > >> > >> Use one lens to run through as much of the shutter speed range as you > >> can at the beginning of the roll. > >> > >> Use the rest of the roll to take interesting pictures and to have fun. > >> > >> Develop and look at negatives. > >> > >> If the negatives look good, repeat as necessary, skipping the test > >> part of the roll. > >> > >> If the exposures are really bad and unpredictable, get a CLA for the > >> camera. > >> > >> Ric Carter > >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/ricc/ > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Windows Live?: Keep your life in sync. > > http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_allup_explore_012009 > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live?: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_allup_explore_012009