Hello to everyone who has joined the list My name is Gordon and I have set this up, because I recently got hold of an M6 as a compact alternative to my SLR for...
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Gordon Hudson
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Oct 18, 1999 2:56 pm
Hello, Does anyone on the list have experience of this lens. I have got one, but have noticed the following: Sometimes unlocks and starts to collapse if you...
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Jim Licquia
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Oct 19, 1999 12:12 pm
Message: 1 Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 15:56:43 +0100 From: Gordon Hudson <gordon@...> Subject: Elmar 50mm f2.8 (current collapsible one) ...
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Donna-Lee Phillips
dlp@...
Feb 24, 2000 6:14 am
Hello... my first post, so I hope I get it right. 1. I am looking for a manual, photocopy OK, for Leica M3, as I have lost mine and in a brain-injury accident...
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Gordon Hudson
gordon@...
Feb 24, 2000 8:39 am
Dear Donna, Somewhere on the web there is a facsimile version of the manual for the M3 that you can download. I have seen it before. I will look for it and...
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Gordon Hudson
gordon@...
Feb 24, 2000 11:09 am
Well I found the website: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/5799/leica.htm Unfortunately the link to the M3 manual is not working. From memory, it was a...
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Donna-Lee Phillips
dlp@...
Feb 24, 1996 11:35 am
Gordon-- Thank you. I'll see if he still has it. Donna-Lee...
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Hans Pahlen
hans.pahlen@...
Feb 24, 2000 12:56 pm
Donna-Lee, I am "the guy", and the M3 manual is still there! The problem is that the server www.fortunecity.se seems to be down for the moment. It is a Swedish...
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Tony Winkless
xbw58@...
Feb 23, 2000 8:28 pm
As a joiner here are my current interests (will no doubt change over time!). I have a IIIb, bought as a birthday present last year. It was made in 1939 - so no...
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Gordon Hudson
gordon@...
Feb 25, 2000 8:29 am
Hi Tony, Yes, I was brought up on the old Screw thread Leicas that my dad passed on to me, but just last year bought a new M6. I do a lot of work in Africa and...
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jackh@...
Feb 25, 2000 4:47 pm
Please excuse me if this info is sounding like spam. I suppose it is an...
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Donna-Lee Phillips
dlp@...
Feb 25, 1996 4:54 pm
Kind of hard to tell if your info was spam or not, since you didn't finish your post. I'm not sure what the rules of the ng. are, but if you are a provider of...
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Jack Hendler
jackh@...
Feb 25, 2000 5:33 pm
My prevoius message was cut off when it was posted so I will resend it as per Donna's request. You all know that finding good experienced Leica service is not...
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Donna-Lee Phillips
dlp@...
Feb 25, 1996 5:49 pm
Jack-- (Please, Donna-Lee... not just Donna?) Thank you for re-posting. I am grateful for the link, and certainly don't consider it 'spam'. I will be in touch...
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Jack
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Feb 25, 2000 6:12 pm
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Tony Winkless
xbw58@...
Feb 25, 2000 9:51 pm
Thanks Gordon Have had the M4-P suggested by a couple of people from the screw fraternity - perhaps with your point about quality in mind. Being a specs wearer...
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Tony Winkless
xbw58@...
Mar 15, 2000 9:25 pm
I attended the UK Milton Keynes Leica M course last week (very good by the way). Asked them whether they knew of any problems with the mechanics of the 2.8...
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Gordon Hudson
gordon@...
Mar 16, 2000 8:22 am
Hi Tony, Thats typical leica speak from Milton Keynes! My 50 2.8 has an apparently loose aperture ring and its sometines difficult to engge it in the open ...
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Tony Winkless
xbw58@...
Mar 17, 2000 10:32 pm
Yes Gordon - after my two days at Leica I came away with the view that nothing could possibly be wrong with any of their products! Their view on the...
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Gordon Hudson
gordon@...
Mar 24, 2000 11:42 am
Hello, Cosina are now selling a rangefinder camera which accepts Leica screw mount lenses. You can see a picture of it on this web page: ...
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Donna-Lee Phillips
dlp@...
Mar 31, 2000 3:13 pm
Help... I need a 21 mm brightline finder repaired. No parts need replacing, I think, but the blacking needs repainting and it is missing a small screw. I tried...
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Tina Manley
images@...
Mar 31, 2000 3:21 pm
... I get the consistently best rates from B&H Photo at: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/ Their film list and prices are on a pdf file that you can download and...
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Donna-Lee Phillips
dlp@...
Mar 31, 2000 3:23 pm
Tina-- I haven't ordered film since (shudder) pre-computer days. I'll check B&H out. Thank you, DL...
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Donna-Lee Phillips
dlp@...
Apr 7, 2000 3:41 pm
Help? I tried Jack but his e-mail was returned. Summer is coming, and I really want to get my 21mm bright-line finder repaired so I can actually USE my M3....
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Tony Winkless
xbw58@...
Apr 22, 2000 7:14 pm
Any thoughts/experiences please of C41 B&W films? Tony...
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Gordon Hudson
gordon@...
Apr 22, 2000 7:43 pm
Hi Tony, I used to use Ilford XP2 a lot. It has huge latitude but I always found the contrast too flat compared to HP5 (the conventional balck and white ...
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Tony Winkless
xbw58@...
Apr 29, 2000 8:56 pm
Thanks Gordon Tony...
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Gordon Hudson
gordon@...
Aug 24, 2000 7:09 pm
Hello Spencer, No , I bought my Elmar second hand but it was only a few months old. I have since got an old 90 f4. I only paid 95 pounds for it and it is in ...
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Spencer
spncr@...
Aug 24, 2000 10:53 pm
Hi - just joined this list, in fact just found it. I had "joined" the list when I made my first post - the post didn't go through to the list, just to Gordon,...
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Donna-Lee Phillips
dlp@...
Aug 25, 2000 2:03 am
Hello-- It's good to see some posts, and know the group is alive somewhere. I tried to look at Gordon's photographs, but my O/S can't open them. I am within...
