Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Scooter ? You too? So you're Barcelona ready now LoL more at http://www.frozenlight.eu/fotosevilla/night/content/P400F_17092003_10_large.html I didn't know these and particularly enjoyed http://www.frozenlight.eu/fotosevilla/feria/content/P400F_05052004b_22_large.html Thanks for sharing pictures and information. Phil...x Nathan Wajsman wrote: > Hi Charlie, > > The CL is a wonderful camera if you learn to live within its > limitations, the most important of which is, as you allude to, the > short base of the rangefinder, which makes the longer lenses basically > unusable unless you shoot at infinity. So I would not bother with the > 135mm Hektor, and not even with the 90mm Elmar C which was meant for > the CL but which in my experience rarely focused on target. During > 2003 and 2004 I used a couple of CLs with a 40mm Summicron C and a > 21mm Color Skopar to take most of the pictures in my Seville gallery: > http://www.frozenlight.eu/fotosevilla/ > > There is something nice and liberating about a tiny and light camera > bag, and only a limited choice of lenses. > > Nathan > > Charlie Meyer wrote: > >> Well, my new (ok, to me!) Leica CL arrived in the mail today. For >> $225 off RFF, it looked as nice or nicer than those selling for more >> on that 'big other auction site'. I really wanted a user M2 or M3 as >> a second body, but the market has gone loony on M2/3 prices. With >> 40mm framelines, it mates up well with my VC 1,4/40 Nokton. The >> small focusing patch is going to take a bit to get used to after >> being spoiled with the M3 finder. It's half the age of my M3, and >> there's @#$%&! PLASTIC (ok, just a bit) inside), but there's still a >> nice heft to it. At less than half what 50 year old M2/3s are >> fetching on that 'other big auction site', I can live with an >> internal meter that's off and still know I will be financing part of >> Sherry's retirement account. My Leicas make my LunaPro F look as >> unobtrusive as a boom box at a wake, but it is accurate. It'll be a >> cold day in hell when 9v batteries are obsolete and unobtainable. >> >> I guess it really isn't fair to compare the cl with the Ms. I'm >> starting a roll in the morning to see if I can adjust to a less >> sensitive and precise rangefinder. For the money, I certainly cannot >> bitch. >> >> Rounding out the lens department of the bag is a 135 Hektor that I >> picked up from the post office this morning. Hell, they're cheap >> enough ($83 shipped), but the damn 12575 hood was a bear to find at a >> price less than the damn lens. The Hektor is stiffer focusing, but a >> CLA should rectify that. I bought a nice 12575 hood for the Elmar >> and Hektor last night for less than $30. Everything now fits comfy >> in a Domke F-803 bag. Big enough to carry the kit...small enough to >> keep the G.A.S. in check (yeah, right). >> >> Anyone have pointers about using a CL? I figure sticking to shorter >> lenses and stopping down should be a first step. >> >> I'm still hoping just to luck out at some estate sale for another >> M2/3. I was lucky the first time. >> >> >> Charlie >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >