View Full Version : Congrats to Eric Clapton & his M8
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=472172&in_page_id=1770
Clapton thinking to himself.. "..hmm it's that dreaded black frame issue again."
kshapero
07-31-2007, 15:19
48074
Better luck next time, Eric take the cap off.:confused:
erikhaugsby
07-31-2007, 15:31
I'm sure he'll figure it out soon enough--but unlike most of us he won't be wasting film on that beautiful lens cap, just pixels.
back alley
07-31-2007, 15:53
maybe he thinks it's a pinhole camera...
Mackinaw
07-31-2007, 15:54
Shades of 1966 album "Fresh Cream" which shows Clapton holding a M3. I guess Eric's a Leica man.
Jim Bielecki
Ted Witcher
07-31-2007, 15:59
Everybody here has made that mistake with an RF camera. His real problem is that he's got the wrong tool altogether: he should be doing performers-at-a-distance with an SLR.
48074
Better luck next time, Eric take the cap off.:confused:
Take both caps off. And get some decent shorts too.
Hey...
I've made that mistake before, leaving the lens cap on...
Is everyone going to laugh at me as ell?
Go ahead.
Did you guys read the article? I did not know that the M8 is a "Single-Lens Reflex" camera...hahaha
I think that is more laughable, then leaving the lens cap on.
"Attending the annual Crossroads Guitar Festival in Chicago, the 62-year-old musician reached for his state-of-theart Leica single-lens reflex camera as a procession of new and old instruments were laid out before him"
As mistaken as Eric was to be seen in public making a minor gaff ... at least he probably knows it's a rangefinder ... unlike the writer of the article! :D
erikhaugsby
07-31-2007, 17:31
Well hey, it's black and it has a big lens, so it has to be a dSLR, right? :angel:
"Eric was obviously very proud of his impressive-looking camera and seemed exceedingly keen to try it out."
Another dopy statement ... I'm sure the price of an M8 probably resides in the ashtray of his car as lose change!
I'm a bit of a Clapton fan ... as much the man as his music ... and these bloody two bit journos with their condescending attitudes get up my nose. :mad:
There ... I feel much better now! :p
WTF.. these daily mail journalists are total hacks. Look at the caption for Posh.. what self respecting human being does not know the context of that image?.. losers..
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/07_03/capclowns_468x301.jpg
xayraa33
07-31-2007, 18:16
maybe Eric drops in to browse at this forum.
he is an RF camera fan.
"Eric was obviously very proud of his impressive-looking camera and seemed exceedingly keen to try it out."
Another dopy statement ... I'm sure the price of an M8 probably resides in the ashtray of his car as lose change!
I'm a bit of a Clapton fan ... as much the man as his music ... and these bloody two bit journos with their condescending attitudes get up my nose. :mad:
There ... I feel much better now! :p
Well having done the same as Clapton I can laugh at that but I am not a fan of his music (His Robert Johnson tribute album not only perpetuates the myth of Johnson's centrality to the blues tradition, but was full of second rate renditions of Johnson's recordings) and wonder why he holds a festival to benefit a drug treatment place in Antigua as opposed to funds for health care for the blues musicians he so admires, or the thousands of Chicagoans with drug problems and why no one in Chicago did not call him out on it.
I've done the same exact thing a few times. It's disconcerting. It's also strange to see how the M8 behaves when I don't know the switch has been jostled from Auto to Bulb.
I like Eric, so I'll give him the benefit of a doubt on this one. Maybe he's not actually trying to take a pic at that instant -- just lookin' through the VF --- to see if it needs wiped off - whatever. I've held cameras to my face, looked through the VF for a few seconds --- with no lens, on purpose. :p Big deal.
Why doesn't Leica manufacture the lens cap with a flat bottom edge and a tab extending from the upper left circumference of the cap so as to appear in the viewfinder?
I realise there remains the possibility that the chronic leaver-onner will refit the lens cap with the tab at bottom right instead of top left - but at least there'd be a 50% improvement in the error factor.
sienarot
07-31-2007, 22:20
I love Clapton. To put him in the same category as Posh Spice and (*yech*) George Bush is insulting. I'm willing to assume he's just comparing VF brightness or magnification of other RFs he may have :)
Coincidently, I've been listening to a couple of his albums non-stop for the past two weeks, even while I was printing in the darkroom yesterday evening.
LeicaTom
07-31-2007, 23:18
Hahahahahahahaahhaa! That`s funny......but I won`t laugh too loud, while shooting my Leica Girl tribute this weekend I handed the IIIC to Angela my model and shot a few really nice shots of her posing the camera....after I took two shots I noticed I didn`t extend the Summitar barrel or remove the lens cap from the "prop" camera!
I`ll have to post one here when I have it done - only with a Rangefinder! You gotta LOVE IT :)
Tom
Sometimes I leave the cap on on purpose.
That is when I want to see with the different frame lines which lens would be best.
Many times I get notified by bystanders that the cap is still on, and I stopped to
explain.....
mad_boy
etrigan63
08-06-2007, 09:55
I tried to post a comment on that news page pointing out the author's own gaffs and apparently comments have been disabled on that page. I wonder why....:rolleyes:
dazedgonebye
08-06-2007, 10:15
Lens cap? You're supposed to take that off?
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/157/385870352_aa89c3aeb6.jpg
markinlondon
08-06-2007, 10:21
This does raise one important question. No, not the one about not being able to believe anything in The Daily Mail, that's a given.
I want to know where you can get a new M8 in the UK for £1700.
Gabriel M.A.
08-06-2007, 16:41
WTF.. these daily mail journalists are total hacks. Look at the caption for Posh.. what self respecting human being does not know the context of that image?.. losers..
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/07_03/capclowns_468x301.jpg
I'm a self-respecting human being, and I don't know "the context" that you have in mind, which is evidently not the one the poster has in mind, which is evidently the one that most humans have in mind (ergo, you can argue most humans are not self-respecting, by your logic)
What context other than "cap is left on" can you, errr...illuminate on this for the rest of us evidently nonself-respecting human beings?
For the record, many people don't think I'm human :rolleyes:
Gabriel M.A.
08-06-2007, 16:41
Lens cap? You're supposed to take that off?
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/157/385870352_aa89c3aeb6.jpg
For us self-respecting (human) beings, that is quite a feat! I want that lens.
Gabriel M.A.
08-06-2007, 16:48
The dude didn't understand that this photo:
http://www.gallerym.com/images/work/big/feininger_andreas_The%20Photojournalist%201951_L.j pg
by French photographer Andreas Feininger, was taken using a mirror. Concept of "lens cap off" well applied. Not to mention it's with a Leica Summitar :D
edit: corrected lysdexic mistake :o
erikhaugsby
08-06-2007, 16:51
I'm a self-respecting human being, and I don't know "the context" that you have in mind, which is evidently not the one the poster has in mind, which is evidently the one that most humans have in mind (ergo, you can argue most humans are not self-respecting, by your logic)
What context other than "cap is left on" can you, errr...illuminate on this for the rest of us evidently nonself-respecting human beings?
For the record, many people don't think I'm human :rolleyes:
The woman in the picture that they've lableled as Kate Moss is actually Victoria Beckham.
http://socialitelife.com/2005/10/03/nibbly_things_victoria_beckmans_attempt_at_photogr aphy.php
Gabriel M.A.
08-06-2007, 16:55
The woman in the picture that they've lableled as Kate Moss is actually Victoria Beckham.
http://socialitelife.com/2005/10/03/nibbly_things_victoria_beckmans_attempt_at_photogr aphy.php
Oh! That's context?? I thought that was called errata. What kind of self-respec... oh, nevermind.
Thanks for the clarification.
Speaking of dyslexic, are you sure it was taken using a mirror? ;)
(A very young) Dennis Stock is the guy holding the camera & while I can't read the inscription on the lens, the camera appears to be oriented the correct way, i.e., Feininger took the photo of Stock straight on, not from a mirror. Same goes for dazedgonebye's tribute.
The dude didn't understand that this photo:
http://www.gallerym.com/images/work/big/feininger_andreas_The%20Photojournalist%201951_L.j pg
by French photographer Andreas Feininger, was taken using a mirror. Concept of "lens cap off" well applied. Not to mention it's with a Leica Summitar :D
edit: corrected lysdexic mistake :o
I believe the context is not that they mistook Ms. Moss for Mrs. Beckham (it is difficult to tell socialites apart nowadays), but rather that the reason Mrs. Beckham held the camera up was to mock the paparazzi, not to actually take a photo. Not sure what W's excuse was for not taking the caps off his binoculars (perhaps he was mocking some North Korean soldiers who were peering @ him?) . . .
Oh! That's context?? I thought that was called errata. What kind of self-respec... oh, nevermind.
Thanks for the clarification.
Gabriel M.A.
08-06-2007, 19:28
Speaking of dyslexic, are you sure it was taken using a mirror? ;)
(A very young) Dennis Stock is the guy holding the camera & while I can't read the inscription on the lens, the camera appears to be oriented the correct way, i.e., Feininger took the photo of Stock straight on, not from a mirror. Same goes for dazedgonebye's tribute.
I stand utterly corrected, then :o
If the other picture was a "tribute" and the lens cap was tongue-in-cheek, then that's perfect!
I honestly thought it was a mirror image; I know the letters aren't reversed, but I had read somewhere that it was, and just assumed that the image had been "corrected" during the printing (neg->pos) process.
How did JoeFriday once quote that? "Dyslexics of the world, untie!"
Gabriel M.A.
08-06-2007, 19:30
I believe the context is . . .
I think the jury is still out on both counts.
Good topic to keep under your belt for parties. And I don't mean that literally, although I'm sure some would like to swiftly and unequivocally reach and harm under your belt if you brought it up.
Not sure what W's excuse was for not taking the caps off his binoculars (.
Doesn't matter to him. He sees what he wants to see, cap on or cap off.
Ed
Doesn't matter to him. He sees what he wants to see, cap on or cap off.
Ed
LOL!! That was good!
As for EC and his lens cap..... Well, I guess even God makes mistakes :angel:
erikhaugsby
08-06-2007, 22:08
Doesn't matter to him. He sees what he wants to see, cap on or cap off.
Ed
:D :D :angel:
I believe the context is not that they mistook Ms. Moss for Mrs. Beckham (it is difficult to tell socialites apart nowadays), but rather that the reason Mrs. Beckham held the camera up was to mock the paparazzi, not to actually take a photo. Not sure what W's excuse was for not taking the caps off his binoculars (perhaps he was mocking some North Korean soldiers who were peering @ him?) . . .
George double'yea. He's short sighted. Didn't you know..?
Eric Clapton; can anyone see what lense he is using?
Eric Clapton is, or was, also a user of the Leica R9 + digital back.
I had the luck to meet him when he came into Richard Caplan's shop in London two years ago to pick up one of the first copies of the then new digital back, along with a bunch of lenses.
He very politely asked if he could be served before me as he had the car double parked outside.
dazedgonebye
08-08-2007, 11:41
I stand utterly corrected, then :o
If the other picture was a "tribute" and the lens cap was tongue-in-cheek, then that's perfect!
I honestly thought it was a mirror image; I know the letters aren't reversed, but I had read somewhere that it was, and just assumed that the image had been "corrected" during the printing (neg->pos) process.
How did JoeFriday once quote that? "Dyslexics of the world, untie!"
I believe furcafe's version is correct.
My tribute shot was, in fact, done with the lens cap intentionally on, tongue planted firmly in cheek...as befitting my status/skills.
NIKON KIU
08-08-2007, 12:04
I gotta admit.....I have done this myself...BUT only with a Nikon RF!
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/07_03/025claptonREX_468x296.jpg
Sooooo, ywenz when are you getting your M8??
Kiu
Silva Lining
08-08-2007, 12:13
Eric Clapton is, or was, also a user of the Leica R9 + digital back.
I had the luck to meet him when he came into Richard Caplan's shop in London two years ago to pick up one of the first copies of the then new digital back, along with a bunch of lenses.
He very politely asked if he could be served before me as he had the car double parked outside.
Cheeky Monkey!
I hope you told Clappers to wait his turn :D
xayraa33
08-08-2007, 12:37
Cheeky Monkey!
I hope you told Clappers to wait his turn :D
If he politely asked and I was not in a hurry he could be served first, as long as he autographed my London friend's 1960 Les Paul Standard guitar later on.
I met Eric Clapton in Carnaby Street back in the early summer of 1967 at this vegetarian restaurant at some corner there, if anyone remember. I had my father's camera with me, a foldable Zeiss Ikon with b/w 120 film and took some pictures of him and a woman and a photographer he was in company with. We had a long chat, really. I remember him as 'pale and swet' - but polite and friendly. Little did I know that he was hard on cocaine & alcohol at the time (later, heroin too). Those negatives are among the ones that I have had most times through an enlarger.
xayraa33
08-09-2007, 08:40
I met Eric Clapton in Carnaby Street back in the early summer of 1967 at this vegetarian restaurant at some corner there, if anyone remember. I had my father's camera with me, a foldable Zeiss Ikon with b/w 120 film and took some pictures of him and a woman and a photographer he was in company with. We had a long chat, really. I remember him as 'pale and swet' - but polite and friendly. Little did I know that he was hard on cocaine & alcohol at the time (later, heroin too). Those negatives are among the ones that I have had most times through an enlarger.
Can you please post the photographs of Eric Clapton that you took in 1967?
Can you please post the photographs of Eric Clapton that you took in 1967?
No, I can't. I hardly think I have the negative anymore. It 's 40 years ago! I still have a few b/w copies of some of them in one of my first album. Among them a portrait, or crop of one of them and one of the whole group. I have no flat bed scanner, though.
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