Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/03/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have a black III from the early thirties that I might just get CLA'd as the slow speeds are all too typically slow. We'll see how far I've gone to the digits; I kept all my Hewes kit and photographers formulary is still available. But the bluebonnets are budding out and the question arises, is it better to keep time to a metronome or be out in the world seeing what is real... On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 11:28 PM Daniel Ridings via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > Thanks Jim and Douglas, > > For the last year I had been using the III's extensively because of the > cataract in my right eye. My left eye had already been "serviced", but > Leicas are clumsy with left eye focusing. > > My IIIc is nr 418563, after the war, from what I gather. I bought it years > ago, probably 20, from Ken Frazier (I think) on the LUG. I noticed it was > overexposing a bit in the late fall (compared to other cameras that had > been serviced) so I sent in it and my IIIf (also from a list member years > ago) to adjust the shutter along with a regular CLA of the IIIf. Now > everything matches up for a while, probably for the rest of my life ;-) > > I remember that Marc Small always praised the IIIc, even over the IIIf. I > wouldn't go that far, but the more I use it, the better I understand him. > It is cheap, no collectors want it, it has a die cast body (no paper shims > to get misplaced over the years) and it is relatively light. I still carry > it around in a winter coat with an Elmar or Industar on it, just as a bang > around camera. > > The last 10 years I've been heavily focused on long distance cycling, > randonneuring. We carry as little as possible with us. I've pulled it out > many an evening before an event, only to see it being the last thing on the > table, that doesn't make it into my pockets or bags. Truth be said, neither > does the plastic Yashica T4. The Olympus Stylus Epic does on occasion > (water-proof/sweat-proof). But with the pandemic and all, I'll probably be > carrying more things with me anyway, to avoid going into my favorite > gourmet restaurant (Circle K) for refreshments, and it just might qualify. > > Now I don't want to just babble, so here are three shots from last autumn > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/dlridings/LUG/2020-07-14-0001.jpg.html > (IIIc or f with the Industar) > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/dlridings/LUG/2020-12-06-V49-0016.jpg.html > (with the radio-active Summicron) > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/dlridings/LUG/2020-12-06-V49-0013.jpg.html > (ditto) > > I usually take pictures of people, but there are not many people in my life > these days, for obvious reasons. > > Daniel > > > On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 1:48 AM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > > > Nice ones Daniel. I prefer the Otis tribute, I think. > > Inspired, I dug out my lllc no 3887xx which is either 79 or 80 years > > old, but which I haven't used for a number of years. Embarrassingly, I > > had to look up the manual to check a minor point. How quickly we forget. > > Now where are those orphan rolls of film? > > > > Douglas > > > > On 07/03/2021 06:35, Daniel Ridings via LUG wrote: > > > Here are a couple of shots from my IIIf and 90 Elmar from a couple of > > weeks > > > back, when it was colder, about the same time Texas and large parts of > > the > > > northern hemisphere were going through a rough spot. I was using the > IIIf > > > and siblings because they had diopter adjustment. That was before my > > > surgery. > > > > > > Those little boxes with a piece of cloth running horizontally can still > > do > > > what they were intended to do, let in the right amount of light at the > > > right time. > > > > > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/dlridings/LUG/2021-02-15-0001.jpg.html > > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/dlridings/LUG/2021-02-15-0005.jpg.html > > > > > > They're from one of my Corona walks. Without realizing it I have been > > doing > > > a PAW for about the last year, based on walks that I force myself to > get > > > out on. I am one of those who have remained pretty isolated otherwise. > > > > > > Actually, I noticed that Flickr was probably pestering people when they > > > followed links there, so I thought I'd set up a "LUG" album on the > > gallery > > > to avoid that. > > > > > > Daniel > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Don don.dory at gmail.com