ok, camera nuts...

[Ralf11]

https://www.dpreview.com/news/5265710996/this-wooden-leica-is-a-covert-music-box-with-rotating-lens

 

not sure if it does MQA

[semente]

I wonder if it can do "soundstage height"...

[marce]

I use this to measure my soundstage height, depth and width...

https://www.toolstation.com/leica-disto-d1-laser-distance-measurer/p66760?store=DP&utm_source=googleshopping&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=googleshoppingfeed&gclid=Cj0KCQjwocPnBRDFARIsAJJcf94CDB2Q2AGLOcXWcphIDl74qpPCM6SofBKNqNfvYilhUK8zF367ue8aAku6EALw_wcB

 

[sphinxsix]

1 hour ago, marce said:

I use this to measure my soundstage height, depth and width...

https://www.toolstation.com/leica-disto-d1-laser-distance-measurer/p66760?store=DP&utm_source=googleshopping&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=googleshoppingfeed&gclid=Cj0KCQjwocPnBRDFARIsAJJcf94CDB2Q2AGLOcXWcphIDl74qpPCM6SofBKNqNfvYilhUK8zF367ue8aAku6EALw_wcB

 

Unfortunately it's 40m range, not enough for me (in particular in the height department)..

[Superdad]

7 hours ago, marce said:

I use this to measure my soundstage height, depth and width...

 

That must be the least expensive device ever sold under the Leica name!

[sphinxsix]

7 hours ago, Superdad said:

 

That must be the least expensive device ever sold under the Leica name!

It's because you don't get the costliest component of every Leica with it the red dot! 

[charlesphoto]

And my daughter (named Leica) probably the most expensive - won't finish paying her off for a long time.... (currently going on seven). 

[4est]

1 hour ago, charlesphoto said:

And my daughter (named Leica) probably the most expensive - won't finish paying her off for a long time.... (currently going on seven). 

If I were so lucky, I'd see her as an investment!

[charlesphoto]

36 minutes ago, 4est said:

If I were so lucky, I'd see her as an investment!

 

Ah, yes, of course! The return in love is priceless. 

[kumakuma]

2 minutes ago, charlesphoto said:

 

Ah, yes, of course! The return in love is priceless. 

 

Wait until she gets into her teens... 👺

[Kal Rubinson]

17 minutes ago, kumakuma said:

Wait until she gets into her teens... 👺

Sure but wait until she gets beyond them. 👌

[accwai]

5 hours ago, sphinxsix said:

It's because you don't get the costliest component of every Leica with it the red dot! 

 

Rumor has it that they'll give you one for free if you show them something with a missing dot

 

So is the value of the dot objective, subjective, radically objective or radically subjective?

[sphinxsix]

1 hour ago, accwai said:

So is the value of the dot objective, subjective, radically objective or radically subjective?

It's sobjective, of course  

[gmgraves]

On 5/29/2019 at 11:09 AM, Ralf11 said:

https://www.dpreview.com/news/5265710996/this-wooden-leica-is-a-covert-music-box-with-rotating-lens

 

not sure if it does MQA

Actually, it looks more like an Argus C44 than an M series Leica!

[Ralf11]

Now, that's an oldy but moldy...

[accwai]

10 hours ago, gmgraves said:

Actually, it looks more like an Argus C44 than an M series Leica!

 

The wooden box doesn't have film advance lever so it can't be a film camera, as auto advance for film Leica M requires attaching the clunky Leica Winder M to the bottom. And it even has a "display" at the back. In terms of overall layout, it actually looks very much like the recent digital Leica M Typ 240:

[yamamoto2002]

Pitch is whole tone lower

E L I Es E becomes D L I Des D

 

[gmgraves]

14 hours ago, accwai said:

 

The wooden box doesn't have film advance lever so it can't be a film camera, as auto advance for film Leica M requires attaching the clunky Leica Winder M to the bottom. And it even has a "display" at the back. In terms of overall layout, it actually looks very much like the recent digital Leica M Typ 240:

I still think it looks more like an Argus C-44 than it does a Leica, I had a Leica M3 for years, had the winder too as well as the auxiliary finder for 35mm, 50mm, and 135mm lens. Excellent camera. Kinda wished I’d kept it.

[gmgraves]

On 6/2/2019 at 6:33 PM, gmgraves said:

I still think it looks more like an Argus C-44 than it does a Leica, I had a Leica M3 for years, had the winder too as well as the auxiliary finder for 35mm, 50mm, and 135mm lens. Excellent camera. Kinda wished I’d kept it.

Well, I wished that I had kept it EXCEPT for the fact that it uses film, a decisively obsolete technology (as far as I’m concerned anyway. You are reading a man who has gone the entire photography route including mastering B&W, E-6 color reversal, C-42 color negative, Cibachrome color and Ektachrome color prints. I had and used a cold-light head enlarger (35mm and two-and-quarter), and had my own darkroom. I don’t miss that mess at all, even if it was terribly creative. I’ll take a digital camera, Photoshop (or GIMP) and a good large format Inkjet printer, any day!).

[Ralf11]

yes, film is obsolete

 

now, what speaker is analogous to my Hasselblad 500 C/M ??

 

and what speaker is is analogous to my Nikon F3?? *which I don't shoot but you will still have to "pry it from my cold, dead fingers")

[charlesphoto]

17 hours ago, gmgraves said:

Well, I wished that I had kept it EXCEPT for the fact that it uses film, a decisively obsolete technology (as far as I’m concerned anyway. You are reading a man who has gone the entire photography route including mastering B&W, E-6 color reversal, C-42 color negative, Cibachrome color and Ektachrome color prints. I had and used a cold-light head enlarger (35mm and two-and-quarter), and had my own darkroom. I don’t miss that mess at all, even if it was terribly creative. I’ll take a digital camera, Photoshop (or GIMP) and a good large format Inkjet printer, any day!).

 

I had a state of the art Fujimoto cold light variable contrast b&w head enlarger, the whole nine yards. The chemistry was killing me though. But man, looking at my 16X20 and 20X24 silver gelatin prints, as nice as my digital prints are (Imacon scanner to a Canon ipF6400 on Epson Legacy Platine), they are pieces of art, imperfections and all. The analog smoothness and depth just isn't quite there with digital. 

[accwai]

21 hours ago, gmgraves said:

[...] You are reading a man who has gone the entire photography route including mastering B&W, E-6 color reversal, C-42 color negative, Cibachrome color and Ektachrome color prints.

 

Master of B&W... Awesome! Do you have your photos online anywhere?

 

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[...] I’ll take a digital camera, Photoshop (or GIMP) and a good large format Inkjet printer, any day!).

 

Came across this at V. Tony Hauser's shop in downtown Toronto a few weeks back:

 

 

Given the Copal 3 shutter has about 4" diameter, the body is probably a Folmer & Schwing 12x20. V. Tony Hauser does platinotype. He's pretty much stuck.

 

On the flip side, a lot of the photo objectivists have gone digital I believe. Andreas Gursky shoot with 4x5 Technikardan but the stitching and processing in the backend has been all digital for a long time. Candida Höfer is supposedly digital capture as well now. And Edward Burtynsky is supposed to be all digital too, Hasselblad H6D-100c except when shooting with drone.

[gmgraves]

4 hours ago, charlesphoto said:

 

I had a state of the art Fujimoto cold light variable contrast b&w head enlarger, the whole nine yards. The chemistry was killing me though. But man, looking at my 16X20 and 20X24 silver gelatin prints, as nice as my digital prints are (Imacon scanner to a Canon ipF6400 on Epson Legacy Platine), they are pieces of art, imperfections and all. The analog smoothness and depth just isn't quite there with digital. 

Amen to that brother! I agree that digital isn’t as good as film under most circumstances, but, the darkroom requirements have always been a PITA, and I’m glad I don’t have to do it any more. 

[gmgraves]

23 minutes ago, accwai said:

 

Master of B&W... Awesome! Do you have your photos online anywhere?

By mastering B&W, I meant that I had the chemistry and the enlarging down-pat and knew how to use Adam’s modified “Zone System” for roll film cameras. I didn’t mean to imply that I was some kind of B&W “master”. I do not have any photos online, but am thinking about putting some there. I probably have 10,000 digital photos on iPhoto.

23 minutes ago, accwai said:

 

 

Came across this at V. Tony Hauser's shop in downtown Toronto a few weeks back:

 

 

Given the Copal 3 shutter has about 4" diameter, the body is probably a Folmer & Schwing 12x20. V. Tony Hauser does platinotype. He's pretty much stuck.

Now THAT camera can do the Zone System big time!

23 minutes ago, accwai said:

 

On the flip side, a lot of the photo objectivists have gone digital I believe. Andreas Gursky shoot with 4x5 Technikardan but the stitching and processing in the backend has been all digital for a long time. Candida Höfer is supposedly digital capture as well now. And Edward Burtynsky is supposed to be all digital too, Hasselblad H6D-100c except when shooting with drone.

With film becoming harder and harder to get, and more expensive, most of us either already have or soon will be forced to go digital, like it or not. For the kind of photography I’ve been doing for some time, I find that it is just fine.

[gmgraves]

8 hours ago, Ralf11 said:

yes, film is obsolete

 

now, what speaker is analogous to my Hasselblad 500 C/M ??

 

and what speaker is is analogous to my Nikon F3?? *which I don't shoot but you will still have to "pry it from my cold, dead fingers")

I feel that way about my F4!