[Leica] st. Petersburg

[heintz at ucalgary.ca (John W. Heintz)]

  Marty,

I enjoyed these photos a lot. Just because I'm nosy: what film, lens  
did you use - or are these digital?

thanks, john h

On Jan 13, 2006, at 9:26 AM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote:

> From: "Deveney, Marty (PIRSA)" <deveney.marty@saugov.sa.gov.au>
> Subject: [Leica] st. Petersburg
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> I was in St Petersburg in July and August.  The place previously  
> mentioned
> on Nevsky Prospekt had a good selection of a lot of Soviet camera  
> gear, but
> I think Fedka and similar dealers that CLA the cameras at CIS rates  
> and then
> on-sell them are generally a safer bet.  I looked at a lot of  
> cameras and
> lenses in Russia and didn't buy anything because all the lenses I  
> saw that
> were mechanically okay had bad coating and the ones with good  
> coating had
> wobbly barrels or other mechanical problems.  I'd say a 10:1 ratio of
> unuseable to decent wouldn't be out of the realms of reality for  
> the gear
> that I saw.  A CLA and proper collimation would probably do wonders  
> for many
> of these lenses.  It also seems likely to me that a lot of the good  
> stuff
> has already been sold through eBay and other sellers, particularly  
> from big
> cities like St P.
>
> I may aswell point out now that some of my photos from that trip  
> are here:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Russia .  There are a few in there  
> which are
> less than technically perfect (or not even good, depending n your  
> criteria)
> that I included as a record of the trip or just because of the  
> content.
> Comments, lambasting, abuse, etc welcome.
>
> Marty