gyoung Posted August 25, 2011 Share #21 Posted August 25, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) I always thought the M1 was made for old-style PJs who felt rangefinders were for wimps. Grandads of the guys who don't want LCDs on their M9s. I wonder what the code was for a tape measure, or maybe just a piece of knotted string Reminds me of the tales of setting the shutter speed on a focal plane shutter on a 5x4 press camera, 'a slit the size of a shilling and a nice snappy spring tension' Gerry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted August 25, 2011 Posted August 25, 2011 Hi gyoung, Take a look here M1 - Why was it made?. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
pico Posted August 26, 2011 Author Share #22 Posted August 26, 2011 :An aside - does the UK still use direction-finder trucks to track down "unlicensed" televisions, or is that a thing of the past in the age of cable, satellite and AppleTV? So be advertising-free television and radio. Is that how the tax is justified? No exemption for political propaganda and advertising? They read our energy meters here by driving by the house which transmits its ID and use. They meter our input water use the same way. We have a monster grain processing plant on the river that uses just short of a million gallons per month - at an enormous discount. I'd love to see that stop ASAP. I got a Verison cell phone and I hate it to death. I have to pay to discontinue the contract. I'd rather just put it under the hammer and send 'em the pieces. I swear there are state people who stay up all night thinking of ways to screw us. Due to our depression in the USA (let's call it what it is), my home value has dropped about 20% but the tax on the original principle is still used and raised annually. I'm paying off the mortgage in cash in January and I expect a flurry of calls to refinance. Ain't gonna happen. Oh, and they want to charge me extra for paying it off 10 years early - that ain't gonna happen either because it's a veterans loan. Hah! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Geschlecht Posted August 26, 2011 Share #23 Posted August 26, 2011 Hello UliWer, I think in some wars the enemy is not always @ Infinity. Photography simply requiring the approximate position & the approximate distance when the subject is not @ infinity might be part of the requirement. M1's have parallax corrected frames. Some military M1's were marked 5 & 13.5 (cm?) Since these 5 & 13.5 M1's were manufactured before the introduction of the M4 does that mean they have M3 viewfinders & frames or were they like M2 # 1005756 (1960?) which had an early form of the eventual M4 finder frame system? Best Regards, Michael Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphoenix Posted August 26, 2011 Share #24 Posted August 26, 2011 When I worked for the School of Art & Design my office was in a building which had umpteen TVs, VCRs etc, and a studio with cameras, recorders and edit suites. We used to get one of these letters every few months and we sent a standard reply that the building was covered by the Universiy's central licensing, they didn't seem to record this response and sent an inspector once! Gerry I'm amazed the U.K. still has T.V. Licencing . Does this also apply to Radio? In Australia we gave this up in the 1960's due to the difficulty and cost involved in administering and policing it. (Possibly our natural inclination to ignore taxes seen to be unenforceable might have had something to do with it ). By the way, can a M1 still be converted to M2 rangefinder (are the parts still available from Leica or must used parts be found)? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lars_bergquist Posted August 26, 2011 Share #25 Posted August 26, 2011 To set things right: In many countries, the Post Office also handled telecommunications. Hence the name 'Post-Leica'. These cameras were NOT used by 'meter men' going the rounds to the subscribers' homes. They were used in the telephone stations where the electromechanical exchanges had mechanical counters – like the odometer in a car – that registered the time each subscriber was connected. One shot registered the numbers on a whole bank of counters. If you have public service radio or TV channels, then you can finance them either from a licence fee on the sets, or from tax money. In Sweden the radio licence has ben dropped, but not the TV licence. Other countries have different arrangements. The old man of Radio Days Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gyoung Posted August 26, 2011 Share #26 Posted August 26, 2011 I'm amazed the U.K. still has T.V. Licencing . Does this also apply to Radio? In Australia we gave this up in the 1960's due to the difficulty and cost involved in administering and policing it. (Possibly our natural inclination to ignore taxes seen to be unenforceable might have had something to do with it ). By the way, can a M1 still be converted to M2 rangefinder (are the parts still available from Leica or must used parts be found)? Its effectively an annual charge for viewing BBC, and having seen whats available in Australia (and US) I'm very happy to pay it in return for what we get, aint perfect but its much better than the alternative, IMHO of course! Gerry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twotone Posted August 26, 2011 Share #27 Posted August 26, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) BBC 4 is worth the licence fee alone, IMO. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
normclarke Posted August 26, 2011 Share #28 Posted August 26, 2011 Can you fit an M1 with an M2 finder? Easily, but it would be a pig to fit the frame selector. The casting that holds the prism is the same as that in the M2, but has no provision for the lens that forms the floating image or the 'pencil' prism that inverts this image. The frame lines are on a simplyfied mask that could not handle the changeing frame system of the M2. Hardly economically feasible. Best, normclarke. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest srheker Posted August 26, 2011 Share #29 Posted August 26, 2011 Can you fit an M1 with an M2 finder? Yes, such conversions were done by Leitz. Easily, but it would be a pig to fit the frame selector. It's just one more hole. The casting that holds the prism is the same as that in the M2, but has no provision for the lens that forms the floating image or the 'pencil' prism that inverts this image. The frame lines are on a simplyfied mask that could not handle the changeing frame system of the M2. Look at the Window with "M1" engraved. It's all there. http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-wiki.de/index.php/LEICA_M-Kameras#Leica_M1_.281959.E2.80.931964.29 Hardly economically feasible. Even today people have their M6 fitted with the MP Finder, and back then it was even more common to have things repaired or converted instead of getting something new. Many people kept their cameras for their whole lives. Quite a romantic idea, isn't it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
normclarke Posted August 27, 2011 Share #30 Posted August 27, 2011 Cost! Best, normclarke Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphoenix Posted August 28, 2011 Share #31 Posted August 28, 2011 Its effectively an annual charge for viewing BBC, and having seen whats available in Australia (and US) I'm very happy to pay it in return for what we get, aint perfect but its much better than the alternative, IMHO of course! Gerry Interestingly, it was the same for viewing our ABC. Nowadays, with their money coming from the public purse, the ABC stations are more supportive of the left side of politics and one must go to the commercial stations for balance. But I agree, generally, our present TV programming is garbage. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphoenix Posted August 28, 2011 Share #32 Posted August 28, 2011 Cost! Best, normclarke Thanks, I'll forget that idea. Rgds, David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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