Nice work, Andrew. Judging from the highlights in the eyes, you have your
rangefinder touch working just fine. Great shots of Jaz. Enjoy the new
toy!
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Andrew Fildes" <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 3:25 AM
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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