Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark Rabiner writes: > Edward Caliguri wrote: >> >> Mark- >> Do you also call it "your Precious" and talk using "We" when you use ? >> >> "We must keep us safe, my Precious, yes .... with a UV filter, Yesss? Only a >> Leica UVa filter for Us my Precious! No, Not Tiffin, Nooo! Only Leica, YESSS >> - LEICA!!" >> :-) >> Ed > > > Ed Hi! I don't see any other "Mark's" on the list is the above "quote" > representing what I think or where I'm at? > Maybe a little bit mostly I'm going to defend myself and say you didn't > exactly hit the nail on the head (I'm the nail) > OK > I do have little issues that I'm behind or don't like as I do give the > whole photography thing a lot of thought. > I'm totally down on UV filters. I don't own one. If i was at the end of > a pier with salt spray i might use a yellow-green or any number of > filters on my lens which would both protect it and really do something > to the image other than screw it up. > If it was color I'd use a warming filter. That cuts thought a ton of UV > and that is needed. > > Yes you do remember correctly I'm not so fond of Tiffen as that > lamination thing with the gel inside sure does not sound good to me in > principle. Way too many added air to glass surfaces and I'm not sure if > air to gel surface means anything. I like simplicity. I don't like a gel > squeezed in between to sheets of glass. I like a sheet of glass colored > the appropriate color. > But I've got quite a few of them, i buy them in a pinch off those racks > when i need one NOW. Someday to be replaced by a B+W or even better an > esoteric Heliopan filter I hope!. > Normally when I order a B+W filter from B&H (confusing i know) I order > it with the super multi coated anti scratch coating which costs me an > extra ten bucks and 2 weeks. > As the front elements of many molded Asph Leica lense come from Hoya and > Hoya has a new premium filter line it does not to me seem so > inappropriate to get a Hoya filter. At least its a solid sheet of glass! > And you'd two sheets of Hoya glass next to each other. They wont be so > lonely everybodys talking German in the camera bag! > All my Leica filters and I have several cost me 10 or 15 bucks each. I > get them at swap meets. Many say N.Y. Leica on them I doubt their > coatings are anything to bring home to mom about. > > I shoot with my Hasselblads far more then i shoot with my Leicas. I try > to contain myself on this on the LUG but it leaks out sometimes and > there are rumors. > When I get my Rolleiflex F CLA'd that will change. > > I just think it's not so obvious and kind of stupid to be getting all > involved with Leica discussions and looking at Leica pictures... > on the Nikon list. > > And visa versa. > > It's the Leica users group. I come here to talk Leica. > That said I'm new to Leica, only ten years. My body of work you can take > a peak at on my website goes back 38 years to 1965 I was 13 with my > first darkroom. So there are Voigtländer Vito BL shots which I got then > and even a few Instamatic 100 shots from a bit before. Then Nikon. And > Rolleiflex. Then Hasselblad. > I shoot sometimes with a pocket Rollei 35. > I have a nice Calumet Cambo 4x5 sheet film with a Fuji lens. My most > recent "project" was done with it. The Hallowween thing which is in my > website. The Fuji lens may have to go there is a ring of bubbles around > the perimeter so it would seem to be separating. Still takes better > pictures than my Hasselblads and Leicas combined. > I have an Olympus FT single frame camera which i use now and then. > Mostly "then." Astonishingly mediocre optics for such a small image > circle. Not as sharp as my Nikon optics with the bigger image circle. > > So I'm sorry Ed if you've gotten too used to me or i seem too dogmatic. > (woof) I get sick of myself sometimes too. I hope this post straightens > some stuff out for the Rabinerisly disenchanted. > Well it certainly kept me working for a long time ;-) Alastair Firkin @ work ;-) http://www.afirkin.com http://www.familyofman2.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html