We are happy, Andrew, and you do just fine with that rangefinder and the lens
that some serious fanatics consider to be the greatest lens ever made by Leica.
Cheers,
Nathan
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On Feb 1, 2010, at 10:25 AM, Andrew Fildes 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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