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  1. someone posts this every time a new camera comes out relax I won't tell anyone you are still using an SL2, promise .....
  2. Leica has got back to me on a few things. Lens flange is euro 700 + vat, so I'll give that a miss maybe I will wait for some more copies to come up. Look for good value ...... I have seen a perfect M10 with a cracked eye glass. Leica has told euro 170 + vat, so that is also an option now In the UK, M10 prices are relatively stable. M10-P are wild and all over the place. So for an M10-P I would need to wait longer. ho hum...
  3. Hi, I am buying an M10. I have a choice of three, all good value: 1. Black: Excellent condition except for a scratch on the corner of the viewfinder outside glass, does not effect viewing 2. Silver: Excellent condition except for 3 scratches on the LCD. Can not be seen when on. 3. Silver: Good condition but M10-P (£450 more then the above two). Some light scratches and marks around the body (none deep), two micro nicks on the front top edge. Pitting to the lens mounting plate (at edge). Which one of these compromises would you get ? I don't need to, but I wonder how much it would cost to change the front VF glass or the lens mount plate (the circular piece of metal the lens attaches to on the front of the camera) Many thanks
  4. Leica M4, Zeiss 50mm f1.5 ZM, Kodak Portra 400
  5. nice start, but you need a M2, M4, M7, M-A and MP to make a final decision
  6. colonel

    Liora, Athens

    M4, Zeiss 50mm f1.5 VM, Kodak Portra 400.
  7. All Leica M4, Zeiss 50mm f1.5 VM and Kodak Portra 400 Sunset, Acropolis Astiggos Street Agora Solomou Street Erechtheion Thisiou Street Lycabettus Hill Acropolis Museum Parthenon
  8. The issue on metering is how experienced and comfortable you are. I use an AstrHori light meter for my unmetered cameras, which is tiny and fits into the hotshoe. Many times I can guess the settings now. Usually I take a meter reading then I can adjust in my mind when I change aperture or speed how the other should go. The other issue is ambient vs directional. You might point you meter at the subject but is it being influenced by light from part of the scene you don't want to measure for ?. If you take a picture of people walking down a tunnel to you, do you want the people to be at the mid light level, meaning the end of the tunnel is bright white, or the end of the tunnel and the people in silhouette or do you want a grey balance. Sometimes having an external meter is easier, as you can point it and take different readings. I find this more difficult when having to peer through the viewfinder. For most people those having a built in light meter is more convenient. you pays you money and takes your choice !
  9. Thanks, very interesting. You have upsized from the CL qq. the S5's shutter was quite loud (not damped so much like the S1), is that still the case, or has it been improved ?
  10. colonel

    Wheatsheaf

    M4, Zeiss 50mm f1.5m, Portra 400
  11. M4, Zeiss 50mm f1.5, Kodak Portra 400
  12. All Leica M4, Zeiss 50mm f1.5 ZM, Kodak Portra 400
  13. Lets face it, I am always excited by my new purchases Buying an M4 was the result of a kind of progression. I am really shooting mainly two types of cameras now, my Q3 which does everything, and unmetered film Leicas. It might seem like a big contrast, but I enjoy both. I have spent a long time with a M2, but the M4 has always interested me. It has a hugely useful upgrade from the M2, namely the quick film load, with no take out spool. It also has a quick rewind knob which doesn't strip your finger and a self-timer. It sets the look for all subsequent Leicas. It was also the last Leica that was hand made, with all brass gear parts. The later M4-2 had many cost savings, including steel gears and some plastic parts. This is why M4s tend to last forever and are extremely smooth to use. A relatively low 60k being produced, together with their endearing attraction to users, means there are not many on the used market. They command higher prices then the M4-2 and M4-P, just being pipped by the fashion favourite, the M6, which had over 175k produced. To finish off the numbers, about 82k M2s and about 250k M3s were produced. When I received it from the post man, wrapped in bubble wrap in a brown cardboard box, instantly out, lens on and a perfect first roll. Amazing. My serial number is from the first batch ever produced, in 1967. Okay, I didn't quite use it immediately, I cleaned it thoroughly with lens wipes first. Doesn't half a load of blackness comes out of the leatherette. It was in such good condition, apart from some marks on the top plate (ironically the bottom plate was scratch free) , out of its 57 year life, perhaps it has been sitting around for the majority ? I have paired it with a brand new Zeiss 50mm f1.5 ZM. I have this tradition of always buying a new lens with a new camera. It is a lens I have wanted to try for sometime, but something held me back, perhaps the talk about the focus shift. Anyway it is a sensational lens. I will do a write up on it separately soon. All photos here are with Kodak Portra 400. The M4 has certainly delayed my M-A, perhaps for ever .... lets see
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