Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] kyle is LEICALESS!
From: Douglas Lee <douglas_lee_2000@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 07:51:32 -0800 (PST)

You have my sympathy for what it is worth. Don't know
what I would do if I were Leicaless. Of course, the
LUG would be a safer place...

I was almost Leicaless this past weekend in that I had
decided to take my Nikon along with me to shoot a
roller skating birthday party. Fortunately, I stuck my
M6 in the bag as I went out the door.

I am taking a course at ICP in NY (basic B&W) and one
of our assignments was to select shutter speed and
shoot the entire roll of Tri-X at that shutter speed.
I decided to use 1/15 (1/8 would have been better) and
since I hadn't used my F100 in almost a year (since I
got the M6) I took it. Boy, what a poor decision on my
part. The lighting was marginal and I had a hard time
focusing even with a 50mm f/1.4. I have been spoiled
by the M's viewfinder/rangefinder. I got some usable
images, but blew most of them! I wasn't real impressed
with the exposures either, but that is probably
operator error.

Anyway, I feel your pain. Guess you'll just have to
buy a backup backup M body. (:

Regard,
Doug



- --- Kyle Cassidy <KCassidy@asc.upenn.edu> wrote:
> ah, i'm living in the dumps now. yesterday my m6
> quit on me. 
> 
> i was winding away and came to the end of the roll,
> although i was only on
> frame 15. put another roll in, wound through 10
> frames and it refused to
> advance any further. rewound, tried again, ten
> frames and it refuses to
> advance further; first ten go along smoothly though.
> opened the back and
> bottom, ran a roll through, it still stopped after
> ten frames, couldn't
> figure out why, but i now have to either 
> 
> 	a) send it out to meet it's sister in germany 
> 	b) start rolling 9 exposure rolls. or 
> 	c) begin to use the hindenburg leica exclusively. 
> 
> which i wouldnt mind, but it takes 8 minutes to
> change film in it. oh woe is
> me.
> 
> you may now begin making jokes at my expense.
> 
> kc
> 
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