Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/11/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm leaving for Malawi in a couple of weeks and wanted to see how the camera I'm taking handles strong contrasts. It is dark and dreary here (not really, we still have some nice autumn light, but we're getting there) and it is high summer in Malawi. Pure coincidence that my research trips to southern African tend to fall in the nordic November-January period. Purre coincidence. I picked up a Nikon D80 body for the trip. I like the size. A little bigger than the D40x, but you get more for your money too. Matrix metering http://www.dlridings.se/paw/2007/44.html But there were walks through Odense and Copenhagen with a Bessa T with a color-skopar 35/2.5 (found one in a store for about half the price of the lens alone). http://dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/2007v44/07v44-0001.jpg.html http://dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/2007v44/07v44-0002.jpg.html http://dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/2007v44/07v44-0003.jpg.html http://dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/2007v44/07v44-0004.jpg.html http://dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/2007v44/07v44-0005.jpg.html Then there was the Zorki 1b that came in the mail. Let's not talk too much about that. I was bored one evening, browsed around eBay and put in a minimum bid on one. Not a whole lot different from an old Leica. The frame spacing is nice and even with cutting points between sprocket holes instead of in the middle of them (like most FSU cameras). The shutter opens and closes and the rangefinder works. Ewa, 1/20 @ 3.5, Industar-22 (Elmar/Tessar kind of lens) http://dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/2007v44/07v44-0006.jpg.html Daniel