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Forum: Photography General Interest 7 Hours Ago
Replies: 47
Views: 974
Posted By buzzardkid
Interesting, this pixel talk. Ahem. But,...

Interesting, this pixel talk. Ahem.


But, anybody got any good alternatives for Flickr?


:D
Forum: Photography General Interest 11 Hours Ago
Replies: 227
Views: 4,218
Posted By buzzardkid
Took most of my photographs down. Left some...

Took most of my photographs down. Left some photographs online since a plug-in on my website uses them. I'll figure that out later.

Bye, Flickr.
Forum: Photography General Interest 17 Hours Ago
Replies: 47
Views: 974
Posted By buzzardkid
Probably will start hosting from my own site and...

Probably will start hosting from my own site and only link in to Twitter and FB. I'll likely keep a single image on Flickr, to act as a billboard and re-route viewers to my own site.


I'm not taking...
Forum: Photography General Interest 1 Day Ago
Replies: 227
Views: 4,218
Posted By buzzardkid
Yup. Not happy either. IF I feel images should...

Yup.

Not happy either.

IF I feel images should be presented together, I'd paste them up to a single image myself. And in fact, I was planning to start doing so in the near future.

Now, my images...
Forum: Photography General Interest 1 Day Ago
Replies: 30
Views: 418
Posted By buzzardkid
No. No google glass for me. They would...

No. No google glass for me.


They would compromise my credibility as a human being and a photographer. It seems to me that people wearing them cannot be trusted, they might be taking a picture or...
Forum: Scanners / Scanner Software 1 Day Ago
Replies: 30
Views: 606
Posted By buzzardkid
IMHO, 'prevailing opinion' don't say much since...

IMHO, 'prevailing opinion' don't say much since you cannot tell what motivated those online posters to post experiences online. Might easily be that Canon buyers were too busy scanning to post their...
Forum: Scanners / Scanner Software 1 Day Ago
Replies: 30
Views: 606
Posted By buzzardkid
Get a Canon 8800f with BetterScanning ANR glass...

Get a Canon 8800f with BetterScanning ANR glass for MF and a dedicated 35mm negative scanner (mine is a Minolta ScanDual IV).

My 6x9 color slides at full bore (4800dpi) are 168MP scans! :eek: TIFF's...
Forum: FSU Former Soviet Union RF 1 Day Ago
Replies: 613
Views: 70,359
Posted By buzzardkid
Allegedly they had more than one Red Flag for...

Allegedly they had more than one Red Flag for sale there only two weeks ago, a friend of mine reported seeing more than one at that shop!

I wonder what it would go for, price-wise...
Forum: Leica Screw Mount Copies 1 Day Ago
Replies: 125
Views: 19,729
Posted By buzzardkid
Another Heads Up. Acall 35mm...

Another Heads Up.


Acall 35mm 3.5:

http://www.leicashop.com/vintage_de/kyoei-optical-f-m39-35-3-5-acall.html

Still the same lens for sale, pretty rare lens and has been on sale for several weeks...
Forum: Leica Screw Mount / LTM Cameras 1 Day Ago
Replies: 11
Views: 253
Posted By buzzardkid
That is internal fogging and you cannot clean it...

That is internal fogging and you cannot clean it out yourself easily unless you know how to handle a prewar Elmar.

Good news is, if you do know how to (dis-)assemble a prewar Elmar, cleaning should...
Forum: Leica Screw Mount / LTM Cameras 2 Days Ago
Replies: 5
Views: 224
Posted By buzzardkid
It depends. Do you like low-contrast lenses? Do...

It depends.


Do you like low-contrast lenses?
Do you own a screw mount Leica or similar camera?
What is the condition of the lens?
Are there any accessories with it?
What other lenses do you...
Forum: Image Processing: Darkroom / Lightroom / Film 2 Days Ago
Replies: 10
Views: 195
Posted By buzzardkid
B&W or color? Find a local lab or a camera shop...

B&W or color?

Find a local lab or a camera shop with a darkroom that can handle it. In the Netherlands it would cost extra to have a local shop in their darkroom handle it, almost all of them send...
Forum: Fuji X-Pro1 / X-E1 2 Days Ago
Replies: 166
Views: 13,813
Posted By buzzardkid
Right. I just read through the whole thread for...

Right.

I just read through the whole thread for the first time. And I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone would still buy a horribly expensive Leica full-frame when you could have...
Forum: Leica Screw Mount / LTM Cameras 3 Days Ago
Replies: 5
Views: 350
Posted By buzzardkid
Smile Particularly nice LTM gear, camera pr0n

Small HU:

the current update of the stock list at the below shop contains some particularly nice LTM stuff:

Real early Leica standards and Leica II's
Wartime Red Curtain body
Wartime Red Curtain...
Forum: Photography General Interest 3 Days Ago
Replies: 1
Views: 144
Posted By buzzardkid
Soldiers portraits, before, during and after...

... before, during and after the conflict they fought in.

http://news.yahoo.com/lightbox/soldiers-portraits-before-and-after-war-slideshow/soldiers-photo--1351259233.html

Instantly reveals the...
Forum: Ricoh Leica M Mount 4 Days Ago
Replies: 38
Views: 4,046
Posted By buzzardkid
Ow, I really need that 2.5/28mm, so convinced...

Ow, I really need that 2.5/28mm, so convinced after seeing Maiku's shots...

Now, how to finance it...:rolleyes:...?
Forum: DIYS Forum 4 Days Ago
Replies: 4
Views: 108
Posted By buzzardkid
Hm. Just the other day sold an identical...

Hm. Just the other day sold an identical viewfinder with the front glass totally shattered to a buyer in the Netherlands. Friendly fellow who I'd been in contact with before and who was hoping to...
Forum: Leica Screw Mount / LTM Cameras 4 Days Ago
Replies: 28
Views: 964
Posted By buzzardkid
Ask for a partial refund if it's only the...

Ask for a partial refund if it's only the baseplate. It can be exchanged for a spotless one.

For a shooter camera, having a scratch already on there allows you to just use it instead of carry it...
Forum: Ricoh Leica M Mount 4 Days Ago
Replies: 11
Views: 599
Posted By buzzardkid
Adobes best effort of interpreting that raw file...

Adobes best effort of interpreting that raw file is good enough to me.

Still shooting RAW + JPEG fine, camera set to B&W. The viewfinder and LCD show a B&W image, when set to Manual the camera's...
Forum: Analog DarkRoom / Printing 4 Days Ago
Replies: 15
Views: 329
Posted By buzzardkid
Might give D-76 another shot soon, although the...

Might give D-76 another shot soon, although the replenishing thing still is alien to me.
I used D-76 as one-shot developer, never a second time.
Maybe my issues came from a too weak fixer, I...
Forum: RFF Polls 5 Days Ago
Replies: 104
Views: 5,623
Posted By buzzardkid
Voted 'Other'. Tried with Tri-X and with T-max...

Voted 'Other'.

Tried with Tri-X and with T-max and it must be me but home developing doesn't make these films sing at my place :o

Currently I shoot a lot of Agfa APX100, RolleiRetro 100 and 400,...
Forum: RFF News 5 Days Ago
Replies: 74
Views: 1,801
Posted By buzzardkid
Add SimonSawSunlight to the Mentors on the front...

Add SimonSawSunlight to the Mentors on the front page menu!

We DEMAND it now!!!


:p:D:p
Forum: Simon Says -- SimonSawSunlight Photo Technique 5 Days Ago
Replies: 7
Views: 409
Posted By buzzardkid
Affordable... The Guide to Unique Photography is...

Affordable...

The Guide to Unique Photography is affordable in my book. And shows a lot of contemporary and historical photography, lists exhibitions, reviews books, reviews websites and...
Forum: RFF Polls 5 Days Ago
Replies: 85
Views: 3,739
Posted By buzzardkid
My signature states it, and that's a tie between...

My signature states it, and that's a tie between the Ricoh GXR-M and the chrome Leica II.

The Black-and-Nickel Leica II wins by far. I love that thing most of all!
Forum: Leica M Film Cameras 6 Days Ago
Replies: 7
Views: 381
Posted By buzzardkid
Had a V1 Summilux and it even had coating damage,...

Had a V1 Summilux and it even had coating damage, on the inside of the rear element. It performed great, never an issue with it. Low contrast wide open, but still sharp. And contrast is easily added...
Forum: Rangefinder Photography Discussion 6 Days Ago
Replies: 8
Views: 508
Posted By buzzardkid
Real nice photography indeed, and compassionate...

Real nice photography indeed, and compassionate too.

Very real, both in images and stories.

Impressive!
Forum: Scanners / Scanner Software 1 Week Ago
Replies: 37
Views: 3,428
Posted By buzzardkid
Just connected the Minolta Scan Dual IV to my Mac...

Just connected the Minolta Scan Dual IV to my Mac Mini to scan some 135 film. Simply put it on top of the Canon 8800f which I have collected in Berlin last week! :D

The Canon 8800f, I got nothing...
Forum: Leica Screw Mount / LTM Cameras 1 Week Ago
Replies: 6
Views: 357
Posted By buzzardkid
OP, Huub, My black paint Leica II from 1932...

OP, Huub,

My black paint Leica II from 1932 happily lives in the bottom half of a pre-war FED case, I cut the top half off when it started falling apart.

Looks like a real Leica II case and fits it...
Forum: Digital Leica M8 / M8.2 / M9 / M-E /Mono / M10 aka "M" 1 Week Ago
Replies: 16
Views: 448
Posted By buzzardkid
Personal and hear-say from others experience: Van...

Personal and hear-say from others experience: Van Manen is okay for lenses but not so much for bodies.

You could ask for him to send focus tests before signing off and receiving the lens in the...
Forum: Ricoh Leica M Mount 1 Week Ago
Replies: 5
Views: 333
Posted By buzzardkid
It is, the fellow was walking into the room and...

It is, the fellow was walking into the room and it was a grab shot. Still, I thought it good enough to include, due to the light in his eyes and the two focus planes, on the wall and his shirt :)!
Forum: Leica M Film Cameras 1 Week Ago
Replies: 118
Views: 4,418
Posted By buzzardkid
Oh I don't know... Think I'd be perfectly happy...

Oh I don't know...

Think I'd be perfectly happy with a Monochrom and an APO 50 if I could have that and get to keep both my kidneys...


:p
Forum: Ricoh Leica M Mount 1 Week Ago
Replies: 5
Views: 333
Posted By buzzardkid
Thank you Robert! See that as a big...

Thank you Robert! See that as a big compliment.

I was torn with regards to the photographs in the exhibition. One side of me marvels at the guts the shooter of the bigger photographs had to shoot...
Forum: Leica Screw Mount / LTM Cameras 1 Week Ago
Replies: 62
Views: 2,751
Posted By buzzardkid
Erik, does the Leica II-specific case have a...

Erik,

does the Leica II-specific case have a detachable top, or no top at all?
Forum: Sony NEX 1 Week Ago
Replies: 33
Views: 1,210
Posted By buzzardkid
It's more hideous than a baboons rear end. Simply...

It's more hideous than a baboons rear end. Simply because baboons are born that way, not designed!


:p
Forum: Ricoh Leica M Mount 1 Week Ago
Replies: 5
Views: 333
Posted By buzzardkid
Ricoh GXR: shooting an exhibition opening

Shot the opening of an exhibition on street photography at my local gallery today.

On display are photos by two Dutch street photographers, Theo Niekus and Reinier Gerritsen. Both have their own...
Forum: Micl Photo Acc / Bags/ Meters / Tripods etc 1 Week Ago
Replies: 1
Views: 138
Posted By buzzardkid
Theres a guy named aloysius on facebook who does...

Theres a guy named aloysius on facebook who does Leica coverings. Should be able to locate him through google.

Maybe he has what youre looking for.
Forum: Philosophy of Photography 1 Week Ago
Replies: 56
Views: 1,076
Posted By buzzardkid
My main focus (no pun) is loneliness. Mans...

My main focus (no pun) is loneliness. Mans inability to live together with others. Sometimes we are close, sometimes we even succeed to live together with others, for a while. But often we are...
Forum: Leica Screw Mount / LTM Cameras 1 Week Ago
Replies: 1,374
Views: 241,311
Posted By buzzardkid
Thanks Erik and FUJINON, seems this would be the...

Thanks Erik and FUJINON,

seems this would be the era-correct 35mm for me to look for then. I am hoping to one day find one for my early Leica II, preferably with a similar lovely lens hood as...
Forum: FSU Former Soviet Union RF 1 Week Ago
Replies: 9
Views: 455
Posted By buzzardkid
Wasn't he in The Hitchhikers Guide to the...

Wasn't he in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy?

:p
Forum: Leica Screw Mount / LTM Cameras 1 Week Ago
Replies: 1,374
Views: 241,311
Posted By buzzardkid
Erik, what is a 'thick cam' Elmar 3.5/35mm?...

Erik,

what is a 'thick cam' Elmar 3.5/35mm? Never heard of it, how can one distinguish this from a 'non-thick cam' lens?

For my early Leica II I have an old FED case. With the top cut off it looks...
Forum: Photography General Interest 1 Week Ago
Replies: 6
Views: 467
Posted By buzzardkid
Like! :D But not properly synced, I'd say

Like!

:D

But not properly synced, I'd say
Forum: Bill Pierce - Leica M photog and author 1 Week Ago
Replies: 44
Views: 1,387
Posted By buzzardkid
Don't get that. That's like googling 'tuna' and...

Don't get that.

That's like googling 'tuna' and saying there's no alternative for 'tuna' since 'salmon' didn't show up.

Sounds like impaired logic to me!
Forum: Photo Software 1 Week Ago
Replies: 11
Views: 516
Posted By buzzardkid
No trouble here either. Lightroom also makes you...

No trouble here either. Lightroom also makes you export a file as a .jpg if that is what you want, while it applies all changes and alterations to the original-format image until you do. It's called...
Forum: Image Processing: Darkroom / Lightroom / Film 1 Week Ago
Replies: 34
Views: 621
Posted By buzzardkid
X-ray doesn't affect any film. Even the 800 fogs...

X-ray doesn't affect any film. Even the 800 fogs ever so slightly only once in a blue moon. We've had at least ten threads here (no exaggeration) and a poll that showed it.

Only if you're having...
Forum: Digital Leica M8 / M8.2 / M9 / M-E /Mono / M10 aka "M" 1 Week Ago
Replies: 6
Views: 539
Posted By buzzardkid
I wonder how much better that Konica 58/1.2 and...

I wonder how much better that Konica 58/1.2 and the M10 actually are when you compare them to a Ricoh GXR with a Voigtländer 35/1.2 mounted? Or, how much less expensive?

:D


Great shots Jason, I...
Forum: Bill Pierce - Leica M photog and author 1 Week Ago
Replies: 44
Views: 1,387
Posted By buzzardkid
Same here. Lightroom also has one big plus that...

Same here.

Lightroom also has one big plus that Photoshop misses: it can do batch processing at the click of a mouse button. While in Photoshop you would have to program actions to apply alterations...
Forum: Simon Says -- SimonSawSunlight Photo Technique 1 Week Ago
Replies: 17
Views: 697
Posted By buzzardkid
Great stuff Simon. Thanks for posting. Missed...

Great stuff Simon. Thanks for posting.

Missed you in Berlin last week, even though I knew I wouldn't find you there. Next time, right!?
Forum: Leica Screw Mount / LTM Cameras 1 Week Ago
Replies: 377
Views: 44,742
Posted By buzzardkid
Whats not to like? Great shots!

Whats not to like?

Great shots!
Forum: Scanners / Scanner Software 1 Week Ago
Replies: 483
Views: 53,439
Posted By buzzardkid
Decided against the Plustek when MSRP was...

Decided against the Plustek when MSRP was announced and sold off the Rolleiflexes.

Still not sure if all this was wise.

Said it before and seems it's time to repeat: why not find somebody with a...
Forum: Leica Screw Mount Copies 1 Week Ago
Replies: 9
Views: 374
Posted By buzzardkid
Your lens should be a pre-war lens, true Zeiss if...

Your lens should be a pre-war lens, true Zeiss if the serial number is correct. That means:

Small 'm' for meters, not a capital 'M'.
Two screws above each other in the wider knurled ring, a bigger...
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