Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/08

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Hello. Sorry long.
From: "Neil Cotty" <neilc@apphosting.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:39:11 -0000

Hi Sam,

> I've never seen anything like it. The first time using the camera and I

I know what you mean, I am a terrible sceptic when it comes to just about
anything I consider 'hyped', but I picked up 4 rolls the other day, 3 from
the F5 one from the M6 and I didn't bother looking at the M6 roll because I
figured they'd be terrible as they were all shot inside (Car Museum)
handheld at 1/8 to 1/30 at around f4 on 100 ProviaF. Now this was my first
roll of slide film through this camera and I freaked when I saw the pics,
they certainly pop - look especially '3D' imo. I don't know if it's the
rangefinder shutter or the glass, probably both but I could never get shots
like this handheld with any of my SLR Nikons. I now see why you all fall for
these little things besides the considerable appeal of the light tight box,
oh and that little red dot of course. <VBG> ;) It took me ages to just
afford a body, then ages again to get the lens (35mm just pre asph) - it was
worth the wait! Acquiring more glass I think will become a continual pocket
lightening saga over many, many years!!

Biggest problem I have is color correcting my scans to _remotely resemble
the chromes.. sigh.. Where's that loupe gone?? :)

Cheers,
Neil

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