M7: new member

[hlockwood]

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Hello All,

 

This is my first post here as a new member of the group.

I purchased an M7/0.85 just a few days ago and am looking forward to a lot of shooting in the coming weeks.

 

Up until now, I've been using the Hexar RF with 50mm and 28mm Hexanons and the 35mm 'Cron ASPH. I bought the M7 for several reasons, but mainly to shoot with longer focal length lenses. The 0.6 VF in the Hexar makes focusing at, say, 90mm unreliable for these older, eyeglass-aided eyes.

 

I recently decided to switch from silver film to chromogenic to get away from wet processing and to take advantage of Digital ICE when scanning (Nikon 4000ED.) As a result I can partly address a question raised on another thread here about Iflord XP2 Super and Kodak BW400. I have the results on the Ilford now and will have the Kodak results in a few days. I rated the Ilford at ISO 320 and the results are excellent; good contrast and low noise. I posted one of the shots here, http://www.pbase.com/hlockwood/image/77998257. You are invited to look at and comment on my other pics at http://www.pbase.com/hlockwood as well.

 

I'll be back with further comments and, no doubt, M7 questions in the near future.

 

Harry

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[frc]

Hi harry

 

Welcome to this forum, it is indeed the right place for your Leica M questions.

You are right on chromes, they scan a lot better than negatives.

I love Hoppers painting, your picture of it is also quite good;-)

 

Regards,

 

Francis

[hlockwood]

Thanks, Francis. Of course that was Hopper "wallpaper" that the workers were putting up in preparation for a major Hopper exhibit at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts beginning 6 May. I suspect the wallpaper is not commercially available. :-(

 

Harry

[miami91]

Thanks, Francis. Of course that was Hopper "wallpaper" that the workers were putting up in preparation for a major Hopper exhibit at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts beginning 6 May. I suspect the wallpaper is not commercially available. :-(

 

Harry

 

So "Nighthawks" is leaving it's permanent home at the Art Institute of Chicago? The AIC is my favourite museum in the USA, and that Edward Hopper painting is one of my favourite pieces (along with the Chagall stained glass, Seurat's "Sunday on La Grande Jatte", Picassos). Nighthawks is much larger in actuality than one might imagine from photos. And it's such an iconic painting.

 

There is an excellent Hopper painting at my local modern art museum (Walker) called "Office at Night", that I imagine might also be part of the Boston MFA exhibit.

 

Jeff.

[hlockwood]

Jeff,

 

I hope to get back to the MFA next week for the exhibit, to see the originals.

 

Harry

[miami91]

Jeff,

 

I hope to get back to the MFA next week for the exhibit, to see the originals.

 

Harry

 

Harry,

 

I like Edward Hopper so much, after seeing your post I checked out the MFA website. And noticing that the exhibit is co-sponsored by the Art Institute of Chicago, I further discovered that Chicago will be hosting the same exhibit in early 2008! Chicago is not only easier for me to get to (living in Minneapolis), but I have family there, so it's a cheap trip. I will definitely make a trip to see it next spring.

 

Hope you enjoy it.

 

Jeff.