Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/27

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Subject: [Leica] There is something to those classic designs...
From: "Isaac Crawford" <isaacc7@home.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 19:27:24 -0400
References: <B61F335E.866A%howard.390@osu.edu> <39F98577.DFB810E7@swbell.net> <3.0.6.32.20001027184728.007e23c0@pop.roanoke.infi.net>

Just got back my first roll that I took with my "new" jupiter 12. It's a
35mm f2.8 biogon, and they're cheap...I got mine for about $60 and I may
have paid too much for it... Anyway, I'm impressed. It has a nice "look", I
don't really have a good way of explaining it. My 35mm asph f2 is certainly
sharper (subjectivly), higher in contrast, and less prone to flare...*but*
the jupiter is giving me something that I like... I'll have to shoot more to
figure out what it is...
    On a related note, I need to shoot with my screw mount stuff more often.
A fair number of my shots came back under-exposed and I worried that I was
losing my "touch" of shooting without a light meter. When I checked my
camera, I realized what my mistake was... Those are not full stops on the
shutter dial:-) How soon I forget... Instead of dialing in 2 stops, it was
closer to 1 stop...oh well, guess I'll have to re-train myself...!

Isaac

In reply to: Message from Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu> ([Leica] Slide rule names)
Message from Kip Babington <cbabing3@swbell.net> (Re: [Leica] Re: slide rule analogy)
Message from Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> (Re: [Leica] Slide rule names)