Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Here I am, 9 rolls of slides (8 rolls of Provia 400F and 1 roll of Provia 100F) over the last weekend, plus another 10 from the prior 3 weeks, all waiting for my Nikon LS-4000 to come back from the Nikon Service. Sigh..... We went to the annual Anime (Japanese Animation and Manga/Comic) Expo in Anaheim during the July 4th long weekend. 13000 people, a good number of them dressed up as Anime or Manga or Console Game characters. Imagine seeing purple hair, full body suits, huge fake swords and other weapons etc. everywhere.Thousands of cameras, a good number are the disposable type, some film SLRs and of course probably more than half use some sort of digicams or digital SLRs. The guy with the huge Canon 1Ds was there again. I am pretty sure I have the only Leica M7 though. There was a guy with a Hexar RF. He was very happy to see a non-digital camera in use but he was smoking so I didn't talk to him much. Funny thing about the Leica is that most people won't notice it, but those who do would *know* it is a Leica despite I have the red dot and M7 taped over ever since I got the camera. It also still has the "battery cap" that I use sports tape to tape down. I shot a number of frames with the 35 lux at 1.4 and the 90/2 at 2 because I have to. The slides look pretty sharp under the loupe but wouldn't know for sure until I scan them in. I also used the Metz54-3 in a few shots when there just weren't much light at all. I have to say while the 90/2APO is big relatively speaking, I do not find it a problem at all. It balances very well and seems very natural on the M7. The Metz flash is definitely a wee bit on the large side so I avoid using it unless absolutely necessary. I bought the 1.25 magnifier and it definitely is a plus for my .72 M7 when using the 90/2. It is not a problem at all screwing it on and off. The major downside is simply that when it is dangling, running with the camera bounces it around, making annoying sound. I used auto-exposure probably around 75% of the time. May be 10% of the remaining w/ exposure compensation for the backlight, and then the remaining w/ the manual mode to avoid the funky indoor bright spot lights. At first glance, looks like at least I am getting better at using the right exposure mode most of the time. A few shots were still messed up by strong backlight that I wasn't careful about. Oh well.... Another comment that guy's Canon 1Ds and his 11x17" prints. His stuff is really good, but at that large enlargement, slight miss of critical focus really shows. There were a few prints where the focus were slightly off the eyes, may be at the shoulder, or at the hair in front of the face etc. Perhaps he used too large of aperture and a greater DOF would have helped. Nice stuff regardless though. // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com> <http://www.dragonsgate.net/mailman/listinfo> - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html