[Leica] Rangefinder error on M9

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

The Tele-Elmarit was a disaster on wheels from the get go Sonny about the
most conspicuous disaster Leica had ever had and well before someone
invented the CCD or CMOS sensor. One of the dark times in the history of
Leica. Get you could use the normal neverready case for it which also fit
the 50! Leica was desperate and it showed. In this case they just bit off a
bit more than they could chew in the time period as far as miniaturization
goes.
I think the use of a digital camera gives us the immediate feedback to be
able to be able to be more critical of our glass then when we possessed our
negs in god knows what weeks to months later.
I'm not speaking of you personally Sonny as I obviously would have no idea
but many people are dealing on the level where they are playing around with
different developers with every roll and so much different stuff I'm talking
in the 90's and if their lens was bad it wouldn't make much difference or it
would be impossible to ascertain by their results where in the chain the
print had gone wrong. Proably in more than two places.  Their darkroom
results were all over the place from any number of a dozen other reasons.
The first being they didn't give a hoot it was never about consistent
looking results but about playing around.

"Gee I wonder what will happen if use this stuff this time"?


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> From: Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 10:10:58 -0600
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Rangefinder error on M9
> 
> On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> I think these people need very little reason cast aside one piece of choice
> gear to give them fodder to bid for another.
> 
> I know your position on that, but if a piece of choice gear doesn't work 
> for
> me, out it goes.
> 
> When I started shooting my M8, I found two lenses that performed great on 
> an
> M7 were mush on the M8.  One was a CV 35 and the other was a Leica 90
> tele-elmarit.
> 
> After DAG said the CV was not adjustable, I sold it to a film guy.  I still
> have the 90, and use it on my film cameras.  I happily use a 75 in place of
> the 90.
> 
> All that said, I'll point out that I have entirely too much gear, and I
> should sell some to give me fodder to get some more (better).
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> 
> Sonny
> http://sonc.com/look/
> Natchitoches, Louisiana
> 
> USA
> 
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