Andrew,
Strange coincidence. Friday I received ( from Ffordes in the UK) an
M-4P inwhat was described as ex++ condition...When I opened the package I could
not believe it. The camera is very nearly mint...with just 2 tiny pinprick
points of chrome showing through the black paint. It is a gem of a camera ,
made in 1981.
I would recommend Ffordes to the list. P.S. They have 2 good M4's for sale at
present.
Rummaged around and found a roll of XP2 dated July 2006. It is in the camera as
we speak. However it is Bloody Cold over here at present and I don't expect to
have many smiling outdoor shots!
I really do not like the way black paint over chrome wears...give me black over
brass any time. That really does age well.
I would be really pleased to get results up to your standards. You have some
very good shots there.
Regards
John Duggan,
Wales, UK
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--- On Mon, 1/2/10, Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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