[Leica] M6

[Richard Man]

re: film
Tri-X is really just classics and you can't go wrong. I have a 4x5 photo
scanning customer that shot it at ISO64, and used D23 for really low
contrast negs with the histogram pushed all the way to the right, but boy,
now that I have some competence on handling his negs, the tones one get
with that combo is phenomenal. I will be writing a blog post soon on it,
using his images (with his permission of course) as demonstration.


On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 8:11 AM Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> Jim, you will be fine with the 35mm and your 0.85 body.   Add I recall you
> don't wear glasses.  My usual camera in film days was an M3 and I do wear
> glasses.  I never had a problem using 35mm lenses on that M3 using the
> entire window add my frame lines.
>
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2019, 8:05 AM James Handsfield <jhandsfield at att.net>
> wrote:
>
> > As a foray back into film photography, I just purchased an M6 TTL .85
> > body, and I’m thinking about lenses.  I have a Summicron-M 50, but I’m
> > wondering what you all may have worked with.  I’m told that the body is
> > designed to work best with 50mm and longer, but what kind of results can
> I
> > expect with my 35 Summilux FLE (about the only lens I use with my M10)?
> > Any experience with Voigtländer or Zeiss?
> >
> > BTW, at this point I only expect to shoot B&W film with it, but who knows
> > what the future will bring.  Any recommendations on film?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Jim Handsfield
> >
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