Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bud Cook <budcook@ibm.net> wrote: > Urban, > I really enjoyed your images. Thank you. > What color film do you use? Favourite is Reala, with Royal Gold 25 used sometimes and Superia 400 whenever conditions warrant. And up here, that's much of the year if you want to photograph moving subjects, so both top entries in the gallery is ISO 400 film. (To not have to do it is a reason for wanting a second body.) > It appears you use both 35 and MF equipment. Well, technically, yes. Most of my travel photos (all but the two top entries on the web page) were taken with my Zeiss Ikon Nettar, but since Sept 1997 it's been replaced by the M6 in that role (the Swiss photos were taken with the F3HP, one of the few times I brought it along on a trip, the other time I recall was to Galapagos). But in the gallery, practically all photos were taken with the M6 (exception: Autumn Sept 97 with Rollei 35S), so the square ones are cropped because I thought the square format suited them better. The insects were all taken with M6 and 90 or 135 mm. I cheat in another way too: Some of the B&W photos are actually Reala, but scanned in greyscale. thibault collin <tc-lnc@u-picardie.fr> wrote: > How come your F3 hab become unreliable? Spending 20 min finding the best spot, adjusting exposure and waiting for the last train from Samedan to S:t Moritz to find that when you press the button nothing happens because it's gotten too cold is irritating. Year before it needed "resetting" by removing the battery, as it had suddenly decided to take a picture at 1/90 as soon as the shutter was cocked. Before that it served very well for 13 years, which I had hoped I could say of my M6. But the M6 does things I couldn't with the F3 (and I have an FT3 with 200 mm for things it cannot do), which is one reason why I got it. In addition to that, it surprised me by taking noticably better photos. - -- Urban Fredriksson griffon@canit.se http://www.canit.se/%7Egriffon/ Gallery: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/1568/pix.html Travel photos: http://www.canit.se/%7Egriffon/travels/travels.html