Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Lugs. I'm just back from a long trip. I've been editing slides, doing B&W darkroom work, and wading through hundreds of messages from this group that were awaiting me. On the straps: I like the Domke Grippers for my SLRs that Donal and Dan mentioned. But for my Leica Ms, I've been using what I believed to be older-style Leica straps. They may, however, be the same as the R straps Marc mentioned. It is a bit wider than the current M6 strap and the attachment to the camera is different -- two opposing flat metal hooks. Does that sound like the R version you mentioned, Marc? I ran into a guy shooting Leica Rs on my trip, and he had the same strap. I picked up several of them at a camera show some time ago. I find them a bit more positive feeling than the current M6 strap -- though it would be my second choice for RFs. A couple other quick impressions. I shot a lot of Fuji Provia, and it is one fabulous film, just right for Hawaii's light. I had some nice success with Velvia, but it's a bit much in some conditions. And in low light, Kodachrome 200 was fabulous. I pushed a few rolls of indoor stuff to 500 (1 and one-third stop push). When I brought it to my lab here to be sent to Kodalux, they chuckled -- the K-line processing is so unreliable that to assume you could push it and expect good results seemed a bit audacious to them. But the Kodachrome processing came through great. The EI 500 Kodachrome looks really nice to me under the loupe -- grainy, yes, but very beautiful nonetheless, and particularly well suited to an indoor, documentary type of Leica M shooting. Regards, Bill Welch