Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/09

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Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAW 6: Straying from the true path
From: Nathan Wajsman <wajsman@webshuttle.ch>
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 13:19:48 +0100

None of this week's three pictures was taken with a Leica, oh horror! In 
fact, all three images come from a roll of Ilford Delta 100 which I shot 
with my newly acquired Commie Camera, an East German Pentacon Six TL (as 
the name implies, it is a 6x6 medium format camera). I bought it from a 
guy in the Ukraine with an 80mm normal lens, and added a 50mm wide angle 
from the Czech Republic--in total at a cost lower than a single 
Hasselblad magazine, even counting the CLA that the camera needs. So, 
here are three images from last week's snow which transformed the 
landscape around here into something wonderful:

http://www.wajsman.com/2003_6.jpg
http://www.wajsman.com/2003_6alt1.jpg
http://www.wajsman.com/2003_6alt2.jpg

All three with the 50mm Carl Zeiss Jena Flektagon, the first two 
handheld, the last one on tripod. There is something neat about shooting 
with a camera from the early 1970s, produced at a company and in a 
country, which no longer exist. But I am no collector; I bought this 
outfit because it provides solid value for money in MF photography. I 
promise to be good and return to the True Path of Leica next week.

The complete PAW index is at:
http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2003.htm

and comments/critique are always welcome and appreciated.

Nathan
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Nathan Wajsman
Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland

e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch
mobile: +41 78 732 1430

Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2003.htm
General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm

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