Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/02/02

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Subject: [Leica] Moskva-5 (Was: It's a film camera)
From: dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Sat Feb 2 21:36:30 2008
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On Feb 2, 2008 11:48 PM, Ric Carter <ricc@mindspring.com> wrote:
> Can you hand hold that sucker?
>
> Not long ago, I got a Bessa I. It can turn out some nice stuff, but I
> do think I see a lot of softness that I think I have to write off to
> camera shake.
>

That's always possible, Ric. But I have a Bessa II. Voightl?nder made
them with several lenses, the Skopar being the top of the line and I
hear it is very, very good.

The others aren't. You might have one with one of the others. (Novar?
or something like that). I've shot one mounted on a tripod, a Bessa II
with a Novar, and things are still soft. I even went so far as to pick
up an external rangefinder. Didn't really help. A lot of these old
folders are just not as good as memory lane would have them to be.

If you make contact prints they're just fine.

Daniel


In reply to: Message from richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard Man) ([Leica] It's a film camera! Rangefinder at that!)
Message from dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] It's a film camera! Rangefinder at that!)
Message from hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson) ([Leica] It's a film camera! Rangefinder at that!)
Message from dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] It's a film camera! Rangefinder at that!)
Message from jhnichols at bellsouth.net (Jim Nichols) ([Leica] It's a film camera! Rangefinder at that!)
Message from glehrer at san.rr.com (Jerry Lehrer) ([Leica] It's a film camera! Rangefinder at that!)
Message from dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] It's a film camera! Rangefinder at that!)
Message from leica at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig) ([Leica] Moskva-5 (Was: It's a film camera))
Message from dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] Moskva-5 (Was: It's a film camera))
Message from ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter) ([Leica] Moskva-5 (Was: It's a film camera))