[Leica] Blad back: image sample: glasses for long sight

[rgacpa at yahoo.com (Bob Adler)]

I find I can't focus with glasses; 4x5, 6x6, digital, whatever.
I take a pair of half-cut reading glasses to read meters, f/stops, etc. I've 
tried them on cords around my neck (I think there are about 3 pairs in 
Yosemite Valley and more than that at various points along the CA coast.
So now I leave them in my pocket and take them out when needed unless I get 
so wrapped up like Thursday...
Lesson learned; never put the V lens on the orange F setting :-)
 Bob Adler
Palo Alto, CA
http://www.rgaphoto.com




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From: "afirkin at afirkin.com" <afirkin at afirkin.com>
To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sun, January 3, 2010 1:14:49 PM
Subject: [Leica] Blad back: image sample: glasses for long sight

Like you Bob I had the manual on a memory stick in pdf format, ready to
reaquaint myself with the beast, but was having too much fun "using" it to
sit down and read ;-) Fortunately, though, I have "snap-on" magnetic
glasses, proudly Australian.

http://www.theclicstore.com/

I would recommend them VERY VERY highly for photographers with developing
long-sight. Absolute beauties.


> Heck, you think you have problems remembering? I was out with a "new"
> 'blad taking macros of gorgeous starfish, kelp, etc. Every shot a
> wall-hanger no doubt. I was just too crazy involved/lazy to put my glasses
> on; I thought the orange letter on lens the shutter speed dial was "B".
> It wasn't; it was "F" (for focal plane shutter; keeps the leaf diaphragm
> in the lens open all the time).
> Fortunately I'm meshugana enough that I just had a wonderful time thinking
> of what I saw through the viewfinder; unfortunately no one else will ever
> see it though...
>
> Well Alastair, maybe I am old enough for that back!
> ;-)
>
> BTW, do you have a manual for the 205? They are available online at:
> http://www.hasselbladhistorical.eu/HW/HWVSys.aspx
>
> Best,
> Bob
>  Bob Adler
> Palo Alto, CA
> http://www.rgaphoto.com
>
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>
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> From: "afirkin at afirkin.com" <afirkin at afirkin.com>
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Sat, January 2, 2010 11:58:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Blad back: image sample
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> Thanks Jim, I'm already having great fun. Trying to remember how to use
> the exposure system on the camera is my major problem at the moment ;-) I
> settled for using the PME prism average meter, and "bracketing"
>
>> Beautifully captured!  Viewed large, the image filled my screen with
>> wonderful, detailed color! Have fun with it!\
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <afirkin at afirkin.com>
>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 3:34 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Blad back: image sample
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>>> Sample of the images I took with the blad back:
>>>
>>> http://tinyurl.com/ycc44dc
>>>
>>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alastair/album184/Hobart+Tasmania/Hobart09-3.jpg.html>
>>>
>>> and a blow up (1:1 in the full size on the gallery)
>>>
>>> http://tinyurl.com/y95tfm9
>>>
>>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alastair/album184/Hobart+Tasmania/Hobart09-4.jpg.html>
>>>
>>>
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