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Occasional encounter on top of a mountain


luigi bertolotti

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Some days ago, reaching the summit of a peak, I noticed a guy on the top who looked deeply engaged to take some pictures... and took with discretion a portrait from the back.. (M, Cron 50)

 

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The fun was when, processing my pictures, gave a look to the above image, enlarging and clearing it... :) :

 

 

so, you can definitely still find people whe go around with Leica and film... ;)

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I suspect from the viewfinder attachment that he's shooting the landscape in wide angle.

 

He went away soon after saw him(dunno even if was Italian or not) ... didn't see the camera from front... but from the above enlargment I'd say it could be a CV viewfinder... maybe for the 15...  The camera is a M6 by sure (or can be a M7 ?)

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Hello Luigi,

 

If the camera is an M7 wouldn't there be some sort of shadow from the larger shutter speed dial on 1 side of the person's thumb or the other?

Also: If you could lighten up the speed setting dial on the back: The dial of the M7 has a compensation section which the dial of the M6 does not.

 

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Michael

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Hello Luigi,

 

 If you could lighten up the speed setting dial on the back: The dial of the M7 has a compensation section which the dial of the M6 does not.

 

Best Regards,

 

Michael

Thanks for this hint, Michael... I didn't think of the question of the back dial... :huh:  I tried an extreme enlargment and sharpen (the original cut is about 200 pixels wide...) : the dial looks an M6 one, I'd say.

 

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Luigi,

 

Strange I should read your post of an analogue Leica in the mountains as a friend just returned from Mont Blanc with a lovely picture of an Italian with his R7 surrounded by mesmerized kids. Seems there are more film Leicas about than one thinks. BTW the camera is a chrome R7 with an Elmarit lens # 2209530 - in case you know him.

 

Col

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A couple of years ago, on holiday in Austria I met on the top of a mountain (reached by cable car!) a japans tourist with his wife, both were shooting a Nikon F6, I had my M7 and I and  guess we were the only three people shooting film in Austria! So we chatted a little and at the end they said "nice camera" ...with a nod in directions of my wife DSLR...  :(

 

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Re-looking at this topic... (and fresh from some math puzzles... a hobby I practice in boring rainy Sundays...) , the above encounter is a proof of the statistical paradox under which "events with an incredibly low degree of probability do anyway happen sometime during your life".

 

"Given the share of Leica M users, which is the probability that, in an absolutely not crowded and not easy to reach place, one meets another, both in movement, but within a "time window" of 5 minutes around into which both of them do stop ?"   :D 

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