Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Simon, Find a room that is big enough to plant an enlarger and a Nova Slot processor big enough to do 11X prints. In most houses the bathroom works best as there is usually an exhaust fan, but a secondary bedroom or utility room works. Assuming no windows, go to a hardware store or home improvement store and pick up enough foam or felt weather stripping to stick to the door jamb to eliminate light leaks around the edges. You might have to adjust the latch to hold the door tight against the foam. At the bottom of the door you can either roll up a towel or put in a threshold to seal the bottom. If you have a window the most elegant solution I have seen is to cut a piece of 1/8 plywood just big enough to cover the trim around the window. More weather stripping big enough to hold against the trim. Now the trick, screw in a steel screw in four corners of the trim and paint to match: find some one sided sticky magnets and stick them to the screw heads, pull the adhesive and push the plywood against the magnets. If you need more just ask. Don dorysrus@mindspring.com -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of animal Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 2:51 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] The sad state of leica cameras This is a nice development .The owners of our cameras admitting them to be mere relics of days past. Great let all join in the luxury of total control with large arrays and supercomputing PS 119 Let film and it,s users hibernate and devellop quitely somewhere in some forgotten corner. It wont be long before the look we maybe take for granted is not known anymore to the masses. Then the time will be perfect for a revival . Now how do i make a darkroom? Using high speed tape to fill cracks there has to be a cheaper way. simon p.s. what war? | Probably not. Because the sad reality is that the Leica was killed by | the Nikon F and the evolution of the SLR. Yes, some enlightened folks | kept using rangefinders, but the rangefinder ceased to be the prime PJ | camera. And from that point forward the M became more and more of a | hobbyist's camera. | | That's not to say that there aren't hobbyists who are brilliant | photographers, nor is it to say that there weren't, and aren't pros who | continued to use Leica Ms...but if there was a meteor, it was the modern | SLR, with instant return mirror, auto-diaphragm lenses, and shortly | there after, ttl metering. And THEN came built-in motors, etc. etc. etc. | And THEN came digital...But by the time digital became real, the war was | long lost. :-) | | B. D. | | -----Original Message----- | From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org | [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of | Peter Dzwig | Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 2:19 PM | To: Leica Users Group | Subject: Re: [Leica] The sad state of leica cameras | | | | | B. D. Colen wrote: | | > I don't know that that's particularly encouraging - what it says to me | | > is that the Leica has become the camera of rich dilettantes. (Note | > that the article wasn't about the photographer and "accomplished | > actress," Whomever, but about the actress, and, parenthetically, the | > accomplished photographer. | > | > Face it folks, we're dinosaurs...:-) | | | RRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRR!!!!!! | | Remember the dinosaurs didn't die out because they were out-evolved. | They were | blasted by a meteorite which changed the atmosphere so much that the | only things | that survived were the mammals and (some of) the stuff in the sea. | | Is that a metaphor for digital photography..... | | | | | | _______________________________________________ | Leica Users Group. | See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information | | _______________________________________________ | Leica Users Group. | See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information