Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/07

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Subject: [Leica] Rangefinder error on M9
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 21:17:19 -0600
References: <C8FC8AE6.6297%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Mark,

I got the same results for less money when I bought a used Hektor 73mm f/1.9 
LTM lens.  Finally traded it and never looked back. ;-)

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2010 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Rangefinder error on M9


> About the only thing on the LUG a decade ago everybody could agree on was
> their Tele Elmarit which they'd sold off usually years before was a 
> blooper
> in their Leica careers. Mine I could not make a good print from. It had no
> internal contrast. You could not get tones to separate. I was in deep 
> Leica
> denial for a few years till I finally got a current Elmarit. Then zip I 
> was
> back in business with Leica gain on my white backdrop.
>
> I could not figure out how I could spend $450 (used) on a lens and have it
> not render an image you could do anything with. And made by Leica.
>
>
> --------------------
> Mark William Rabiner
> Photography
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
> mark at rabinergroup.com
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>
>
>
>> From: Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 11:34:05 -0600
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Rangefinder error on M9
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The Tele-Elmarit was a disaster on wheels from the get go
>>>
>>
>> Mine was not a disaster, I am really happy with it for film.
>>
>> It is pocketable, discreet, light, and well balanced on an M camera.
>>
>> It just has some minor problems on digital mostly wide open, in close. 
>> If
>> you use it as a short tele, it works pretty good.
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Regards,
>>
>> Sonny
>> http://sonc.com/look/
>> Natchitoches, Louisiana
>>
>> USA
>>
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