Guest guy_mancuso Posted June 25, 2007 Share #181 Posted June 25, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) I have sent the Pm's a long time ago and if you can't remember or care too than i could care less . Okay since you brought it up . Here in public i would appreciate you stay out of my posts Period , your opinions are not welcome. i will do the same believe me. i have zero interest in whatever you have to say, pretty simple. i would also like all of those posts deleted by the mods and whatever followed . thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jaapv Posted June 25, 2007 Share #182 Posted June 25, 2007 Gentlemen, gentlemen, Canons at twenty paces outside the city gate tomorrow dawn please - let's get back to the Leica tour - that is far more interesting.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted June 25, 2007 Share #183 Posted June 25, 2007 here is the WATE just really like this lens . i tired every finder there is for it and still in the air about it. These are in Heidlburg ( not sure i spelled that right). Anyone having trouble with finders falling off . Everyone i tried has fallen off and hit the deck Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/26861-germany-leica-academy/?do=findComment&comment=289899'>More sharing options...
andybarton Posted June 25, 2007 Share #184 Posted June 25, 2007 Guy, Imants Please see your PMs. I will tidy this nonsense up later, when I get home. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted June 25, 2007 Share #185 Posted June 25, 2007 i guess i was looking for chewing gum but look there is some distortation at 16mm. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/26861-germany-leica-academy/?do=findComment&comment=289907'>More sharing options...
jonoslack Posted June 25, 2007 Share #186 Posted June 25, 2007 here is the WATE just really like this lens . i tired every finder there is for it and still in the air about it. These are in Heidlburg ( not sure i spelled that right). Anyone having trouble with finders falling off . Everyone i tried has fallen off and hit the deck Yes - screw 'em on tight as tight . . . .and they fall off . . . maybe if one removed the little screw (or does that let out it's soul). Still, the Franken Finder hits the ground with such a satisfying THUD (watch out if you're wearing sandals). Keep posting - I've just finished this thread - lots of fun - I'm deeply jealous. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shootist Posted June 25, 2007 Share #187 Posted June 25, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Anyone having trouble with finders falling off . Everyone i tried has fallen off and hit the deck I haven't used any finder on a Leica since 1973 or 74 and that was a 28mm Leitz/Leica finder on a M3 with of course a Leitz 28mm lens, I forget what f/stop it was. YES it fell off in the middle of knee deep water, I think. In any event when I noticed it was not on the camera I was in knee deep water. I felt so low I went back to the place I was staying and soon went home. I really don't know why Leica, and every other maker of external finders, don't make them with some type of screw down or lever clamp system. I guess they like selling finders. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wparsonsgisnet Posted June 25, 2007 Share #188 Posted June 25, 2007 Guy, greetings from back home. Man, I'm jealous of this trip. It is surprising that finders fall off the M8. My Voigt 15 finder is snug in the M8's shoe. I used to use a finder on my M6 with a 28mm lens and because it was a little loose, tied a string around the neck of the thing and tethered it to the strap lug when it was mounted. Now that I have blackened floss to tether my 1.25 magnifier, tethering a finder that way would make a good partner, providing lots of curly adornment for the M8. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephengilbert Posted June 25, 2007 Share #189 Posted June 25, 2007 The Leica 21-24-28 finder has a screw. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wparsonsgisnet Posted June 25, 2007 Share #190 Posted June 25, 2007 I am enjoying the images from the Leica trip immensely. Some are extremely funny, for example where the houses fronting a small city square look like cardboard fronts for a cheap set in an American cowboy movie. These images (not to mention the lousy cars these poor guys have to put up with) and those from the Yosemite trip have been both enjoyable and instructive. I didn't have my M8, yet, while watching the Y-trip, and was very interested to see all the toys that I might want being used. I'm having the same reaction here. Man, that WATE takes such beautiful pix! I opted for a CV15 because I can't get outside the box of thinking I want a fast, wide, prime -- but what gorgeous images it makes. I've noted this in all of Guy's posts that used the WATE. This thread must be the postcard that says, "wish you were here?" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted June 25, 2007 Share #191 Posted June 25, 2007 Victor, if you don't know what the Leica Academy is maybe you should find out before you make snide remarks.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sirvine Posted June 25, 2007 Share #192 Posted June 25, 2007 Why would anyone in their right mind post their best work on a web forum? If the mantra will be "everyone is entitled to their opinion" then the response will be "no one speaks for me". Frank Bruni doesn't write a review of McDonalds Fillet O' Fish. In other words, to debate the quality of images on this thread says more about the relative value of your critical opinion than it does about the critiqued subject. And, no, I'm not implying that Guy is making Fillet O'Fish (or is it "Fillets O'Fish"?). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted June 25, 2007 Share #193 Posted June 25, 2007 Well, Guy does seem to attract fishy posts, Sol;) . And please, don't go encourage him to start taking photographs of McDonalds products. I sometimes look at this forum early in the morning. I don't think I could stomach it.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bernd Banken Posted June 25, 2007 Share #194 Posted June 25, 2007 I'm disappointed because I find no photograph from Guy with the needle of the speedo at 260km/h on the german Autobahn....and - it's a Porsche not a Porche:p Regards Bernd Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christiaan Posted June 25, 2007 Share #195 Posted June 25, 2007 Hello Guy, Don't look silly people with stupid remarks. I also was once in Wetzlar ( with the Belgian Leica Club ) and I am realy happy when I see your beautiful pictures . 2 weeks ago was Ralp from the Leica academy our guest ( Gent / Kalken invitation from the Belgian Leicaclub and the belgium distributor De Beukelaere ) and he can tell you we will be proud when you too are once in Belgium and we had the possibility to meet you too... You are realy good and a lot of us , just like you like our Leica products and ... also your comments, photo's and ... travel photography ;-) Kind regards Christiaan ( member of the Belgian Leica Club ) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
freusen Posted June 25, 2007 Share #196 Posted June 25, 2007 A true story. If you know something about history, you would be more carefully with your judgement concerning the work of your colleagues. Please read this anecdote about a masterpiece: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed his Piano Concerto No. 1 in 1874/75 and dedicated the work to the piano virtuoso Nikolai Rubinstein, director of the Moscow Conservatory, whom he also intended to be its first performer. However, when Tchaikovsky proudly showed the work to Rubinstein and two other musical friends, he was met with bitter disappointment. Rubinstein dismissed the piano concerto as "banal, clumsy and incompetently written" as well as "poorly composed and unplayable." Today it’s considered as a masterpiece and is the most famous of the three piano concertos written by Tchaikovsky. Frank Reusen Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tashley Posted June 25, 2007 Share #197 Posted June 25, 2007 I wanted to stay out of this but I just can't. Firstly, Guy Mancuso is a real gentleman, who spends a lot of his personal time working with Leica to get them to assure that the M8 becomes the product we all want. He doesn't get paid by either us or Leica for these efforts. My large ditto to this - Guy is a gent, very helpful, making no claims for these posts other than that they document a fun trip, which they do. He hasn't submitted them for Arles or MOMA. I'm grateful for the news and info he's posted and I can't see where any invitation was made to critique his shots as art. Sometimes a camera is simply used to make a record or file a report and I can't for the life of me see the problem with that. So, Guy, thanks for the record, the report, the news and the whole damned thread. Thanks for being enthusiastic and bouncy - and please, just go right on doing what you do, even without punctuation! ;-) Tim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisC Posted June 25, 2007 Share #198 Posted June 25, 2007 ....I really don't know why Leica, and every other maker of external finders, don't make them with some type of screw down or lever clamp system.I guess they like selling finders. Ed - It is utterly inexcusable. I have shot a lot of work on my [now departed] 43 mm lens on my Mamiya 7. The viewfinder screwed down firmly into the hot shoe, the built in spirit level was precise, and it had built in variable diopter correction. Compared to the Mamiya 43 finder, many others seem pathetic in comparison. ...............Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
carstenw Posted June 25, 2007 Share #199 Posted June 25, 2007 The Leica WATE finder has a screw to tighten it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_big Posted June 25, 2007 Share #200 Posted June 25, 2007 Guy, Has anybody at Leica shed any light on the SDS issue? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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