Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]So I took that old Leicaflex SL I bought in Cambridge out to photograph some old industrial sites yesterday. There were a couple of interesting things I noticed about working with it. First, even though I couldn't see the aperture in the finder, I found it pretty easy to work with. It does feel very good in the hands. It's just a brick. Second, it is easier and quicker to focus the SL with a 50/2 than an R6 with the standard screen and a 50/2. Even with a deep red filter it was easy to focus. I don't like the microprisms in the standard R screen at all. They're largely useless for me, so I usually use a gridded groundglass screen on my R6 and R6.2, except with a 21mm lens where I miss the split image. I'd taken the R6 with a 21/4 on it, so I had the standard screen mounted, and when I swapped put a 50/2 on it to compare ease of focusing with the SL, I was struck by how noticeable the difference was. On a separate topic, I notice that people on the list have been discussing scanners again, and mostly talking about the Nikon LS-1000 Supercoolscan. I thought I'd just raise the flag for the Polaroid Sprintscan 35+, which I have found to be an excellent piece of equipment. It's reliable, you can raise the top to clean it if you want, the software allows a lot of image manipulation in the driver, and if you have questions Polaroid service is responsive and polite. - -Patrick