[Leica] Re: OFF Topic FS ITEMS

[Bill Satterfield <cwsat@cyberhighway.net>]

I see your comment about off topics. I was planning on posting a FS Friday for
a Hasselblad to  NIKON lens mount adapter. Is this allowed? I certainly do not
want to beak any of the rules or guidelines but I do want to sell it.

Kyle Cassidy wrote:

> Dave Waterloo wants to know:
>
> > This is ever-so off-topic, but I trust LUGgers a lot more than I do
> > usenet trolls, so if anyone can provide me good advice I would
> > appreciate it.
>
> actually dave, the folks on rec.photo.darkroom (where this belongs) are
> the most civilized of any of the usenet groups.
>
> [then to summarize dave's message, he washed without photo flo and got
> streaks and is asking how to get rid of them now.]
>
> i won't address how to get the streaks out now, but i'll offer a
> preventative suggestion -- if you discover you're without photo flow, you
> can use a couple drops of ordinary dish soap. however, if you're using
> plastic reels, make sure to wash them very throughally afterwards as i've
> had a problem which i belive to be caused by the dish soap adhering to the
> plastic after insufficient washing and interfeering with the development
> of the next roll where the film touches the reel. i've never had this
> problem with metal reels (i've had entirely different problems with metal
> reels :-)
>
> anyway, to summarise: dish soap = photoflo in a pinch.
>
> kyle "the gnarled little LUG bridge troll" cassidy
>
> p.s. just want to point out something about off topic posts; dave
> correctly identified his post as off topic. i very often see people post
> things like:  "i took these negs with my leica so this post is on
> topic." that doesn't make it on topic. it still makes it off topic.
>
> i'll add a bit of ob-leica content here to steer the arguments back in the
> right direction:
>
> i got a 28mm for my leica, finally. this weekend i had it on my m3 with
> the aux finder and had two unique experiences with it. i was at the car
> dealership buying a car and carefully documenting the event for whatever
> reason i doccument such stuff and i'm trying to take a picture of our car
> salesman trying to sell some snake-oil to my wife and i'm holding the
> camera to my eye, thinking "this is the tightest 28mm i've ever seen,
> goddamn it, what the hell is going on here?" and i'm backing up, backing
> up, trying to get everything in, it still seems oddly telephoto to me.
> finally, i back into a car and i can't get any further away and i'm
> thinking "damnit! this 28mm lens is _useless_ why i might as well be using
> a @#$@#$ing 50mm!" so i didn't take the shot. only about 5 minutes later
> did it occur to me that i needed to look through the aux finder to see the
> 28mm frame lines .... then, if _that's_ not bad enough, later in the day,
> i'm _AM_ looking through the aux finder, and i'm trying to FOCUS thinking
> "where the hell is the damn BOX? this damn camera won't focus for @#$!" i
> even checked to make sure my finger wasn't over the rangefinder
> window......
>
> this m3 is not for me, my friends.
>
> anybody want to swap for a bessa-r?
>
> kc