[Leica] New toy (IIIf + Elmar)

[don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)]

Congratulations on your new pocket camera.  You will enjoy the Soviet
era lenses from the Ukraine; not much money and pretty good if you
examine first before you buy.

But you know that you will get another one for your 21 Skopar...

Don
don.dory@gmail.com

On 7/8/05, Daniel Ridings <dlridings@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I once posted, a few months back, a picture of me with the only
> Leica I ever sold. For no good reason at all (other than I like it), I
> bought another one. It arrived yesterday and I ran two rolls of film
> through it.
> 
> First some slow shutter speeds, wide aperture and close focus:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/iiif/05v27_0010
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/iiif/05v27_0004
> 
> Then, outside in the shade, still closest focus (which is _not_ very close)
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/iiif/05v27_0006
> 
> And then bright sunlight. Well stopped down (f 12.5 according to the
> scale, but I really don't think the aperture markings are much more
> other than guide lines)
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/iiif/05v27_0007
> 
> I was surprised to see the vignetting, especially when the lens was
> stopped down so much.
> 
> I was also pleasant surprized (I forget, is is "s" or "z" .. I'll play
> it safe) that it didn't weigh more than it does. It fits comfortably
> in the side pocket of pants or just hangs around your neck without the
> weight making itself felt that much.
> 
> It's a little hard coming to grips with the odd sequence: 3.5, 4.5,
> 6.3, 9, 12.5, 18, but like I said above, the accuracy of the markings
> is probaby not very high, so I just pretend they read: 3.5, 4, 5.6, 8,
> 11, 16.
> 
> I thought the two peep-holes would bother me a bit (they did when I
> was young) but it just takes a few frames to get used to. Even with an
> M you have to focus and recompose, that that's about the same thing
> here. You're just using two windows to do it in. They are so close
> that switching become pretty automatic.
> 
> Loading film is about as much fun as taking candy from a baby.
> 
> Anyway, its a useful toy. It'll be replacing the Yashica T4 as the
> constant tag-along. Don't know what I'll do with the _other_ YashicaT4
> that I picked up when they quit making them.
> 
> Now for some good cheap Russian glass (Jupiter-12 is on my list).
> 
> It's summer. I'm not taking myself seriously.
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
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