Nice find, and nice results, Andrew. From what I have read here the past
few days, Ronsonol lighter fluid or Colemans stove fuel might fix the loud
squealy noises. Or might not.
Piers
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From: Andrew Fildes [mailto:afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 01 February 2010 09:26
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: [OM] More recent...new toy...
At last my friend who finds things has found me a beater Leica M4.
(loud, squealy noises off stage).
It left Wetzlar on December 28th, 1966 and is now dinged, scuffed and worn
shinychrome. A real 'user'.
And smoooooth.
So I rummaged and found a roll of XP-2 Super that was nealy 4 years over
date and not cared for and ran it through and then put it through the local
hopeless minilab that thinks that a small '300dpi' scan is good enough. Ah
well it's a test to see if I'm up to the task of shooting a rangefinder at
f2 (er, Rigid, chrome 50mm Summicron). It's really hard work!
The resulting scans have grain and artifacts like bloody mezzotints but
there's still something about them, even with a near infra-red effect
applied to stun the noise a bit (sorry, grain innit).
http://www.pbase.com/afildes/m4a
(There's a few of Jaz, just to keep her fans happy).
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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