Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Henning wrote: > I'm afraid you're not a true Leica guy unless you are willing to sell all > your other possessions multiple times (plus extraneous relatives) to allow > you to follow your infatuation. Funny, I _nearly_ broke down and bought a new Leica RT whatever-it-is projector (the fancy new one that takes carousels and costs nearly as much as a new summilux asph). I heard that Leica glass calling my name.... Instead, I bought the cheapest kodak carousel (4200) and lens (100/2.8) and it cost me a tenth of the Leica. Then I projected my first slides (from one roll each of kodachrome 25, velvia, provia f, and sensia ii) and the projector was plenty good enough to reveal all my (suddenly glaring) flaws. The slides looked so good in the cheap little plastic scope I had (you know, insert one slide, hold it up to the light, look through a plastic loupe to see the image); blown up on the wall there was now apparent the lack of critical focus, the over- or underexposure, the poor composition (ok, this much was demonstrable in the cheapy viewer, but I was too wowed by the explosion of color to notice). Out of 140 slides, maybe a dozen were keepers, and of that dozen maybe 4 or 5 were good enough to post here (had I webspace and a scanner). I got a lot of learning to do! Humbled, Dan