Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Noctilux ,eye of Sauron? simon - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edward Caliguri" <caliguri@rcn.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 4:12 PM Subject: [Leica] Mark - I hope I'm still in The Fellowship! > > Mark! > Take it EASY! It was just a joke!! Guess you are not an 'over the top' > Lord of the Rings fan as I am!! Your talking to a lens was funny, and > sounded so "Gollum"-ish !!! > Maybe "My Precious" needs to be reserved to only a Noctilux user .... > :-) > > Ed (In jest of course! Now the Lens Wraiths will be after me!) > > > Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 18:23:02 -0700 > > From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> > > Subject: Re: [Leica] MarK's 35 -"One lens to Rule them All" > > Message-ID: <3E90D2F5.9CEAD05@rabinergroup.com> > > References: <BAB63816.A187%caliguri@rcn.com> > > > > 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. > > > > Mark Rabiner > > Portland, Oregon USA > > http://www.rabinergroup.com > > - -- > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html