carstenw wrote:
Well, it sounds like I might not have my M8 by Christmas, so rather than using my 5D, which at this point I prefer not using for various reasons, I ended up buying an M6! Lovely little camera, much quieter than the M8. I will try to record the sounds of the M6, M8 and 5D, when I have them all side-by-side. I also bought four rolls of Tri-X and will have some fun with that. I will probably end up buying some more. It will cost me about 10 Euro per film to have them developed by a pro. Scans are 1 Euro each, or 15 Euro for a roll. If I enjoy this experiment, I will probably buy a Nikon or Minolta film scanner.
Tom,
I'm sure you will shoot less frames but get excellent shots. That's that my experience with film and Leica.
BTW. Didn't you have a M6 before? did you buy one more for backup? I also see that you have a M7.
Perhaps we could take it over to the processing forum and try it, but with the advance understanding I will cease comment there if the natives start going postal.
Sounds great. Do you want to start a new thread, or should I?
brainiac wrote:
I have a nice Nikon Super Coolscan LS2000 and scsi card I might sell if you're interested. Or anybody else. Don't use it any more.
I won't have any money for a while, and the little money I won't have will go towards a 28 Cron Asph, and once that kills me, the next little batch of money will go towards a 75 Lux. After that, I will be ready to buy a scanner I will contact you and Lotus in many months, just in case you never got around to selling your scanners.
marbrink wrote:
Tom,
I'm sure you will shoot less frames but get excellent shots. That's that my experience with film and Leica.
BTW. Didn't you have a M6 before? did you buy one more for backup? I also see that you have a M7.
Martin, that was me who bought an M6, and I never had one before. I am all keen, but afraid to put film in it. Flipping through the manual today, I finally figured out why the M8 doesn't have that little 'R' lever
The original, 1992, chrome. The later TTL version has a larger shuttertime dial, with the same direction of rotation as the M8, as well as flash TTL, but I wasn't ready to pay €500 more for the former, given that I am not interested in flash.
carstenw wrote:
Martin, that was me who bought an M6, and I never had one before. I am all keen, but afraid to put film in it. Flipping through the manual today, I finally figured out why the M8 doesn't have that little 'R' lever
Sorry Carsten. I must have been very tired when I typed that
Why are you afraid to put film in it? Ask if you need any advice. I've had M6 TTL, MP and M7.
I was just kidding It is that age-old difference between film and digital. With digital you take way too many pictures, because there is no per-picture associated cost, just time spent. Once I put a film in the M6, I won't be able to play with it any more until the film is finished. I am still playing I will put film in tomorrow.
What I really need is to figure out how to adjust the rangefinder. I understand from an LCU comment by RobSteve that the screw which holds the wheel which rolls on the cam on the lens is an excentric, and that turning this will adjust infinity focus. I think I also need to adjust the vertical focus, but from what I understand, I need to remove the Leica red dot for this, and with the M6 I need to use a special tool costing $250.
Can you confirm any of this?
The situation is this: I have three lenses, but only two focus, the CV15 does not. The two are a 50 Lux Asph, which just came back from Leica, but had some focusing trouble before, and a 1st-gen 135 f/2.8 with glasses. With the latter I can focus on infinity, but it is vertically out. With the 50, I can't quite reach infinity, but I can't detect so far that it is vertically out. Given that I am not 100% sure that the 50 is spot-on, I am not quite sure how to proceed, given that I don't want to send another Leica to Solms right now.
Hi Carsten,
Horizontal RF adjustment is fairly easy - I used a small screwdriver which I bent for the task. Just be carefull to not apply too much upward force on the arm. Horisontal misalignment can be due also to a lens that is out of calibration but a lens cannot effect vertical alignment. There is a danger with only a couple of lenses that one of them is not in calibration and you will never know which one is right. I made a special tool to adjust the vertical alignment but you need to understand how the mechanism works in order to use it and this involves removing the top plate (I have the tools for this as well). It's easy to damage the RF mechanism by doing it wrong. My advice is to take it to a Leica specialist shop as they are very likely to have the tools and a reference lens to do the adjustment and it's shouldn't cost too much in money or time -possibly while you wait.
Hey Victor, cheery as usual My M8 is supposed to be in the store tomorrow, one hour after I leave for Denmark
I took my M6 back to the store, and was able to show them both the vertical and horizontal out-of-adjustment. They told me to bring it back after Christmas and they will send it to Solms for adjustment, on their tab. It is not much, and I am not sure that I would be able to detect the problem in a film photo, without the use of a 75 Lux or Noct, but I still want it fixed at some point.
gogopix wrote:
It's been three pages and we haven't seen Jack's jeep, so I thought I would quote...
Victor
Man, you guys are a tough crowd!
I am now am completely embarassed into getting a better pic of her up for you guys to critique! If only it stops raining here, and we get some sun, and I can get one of the kids to wash her up...
Carsten,
Sorry, don't know much about rangefinder adjustment. I think you'll be very happy with M6 and when you see the results i think you'll have a hard time to go back to digital. At least in B&W.
Reb ... I was just wondering if that jeep had a counter balance on the front or is it setup to do wheelies.
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