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New LS Group: Film Leica
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Since many people appear to prefer Leica rangefinders for their film work, I set this group up as somewhere we can help each other out. In many ways the concerns of a film user are different from those of a digital user, and those of a Leica user are even more specific.
Need a good Leica technician in Bucharest? Or good film stock in Colombia? How do you fix a jammed M6 with a Swiss Army knife? Someone might know.
The group is intended for people who use their camera as a tool, not for collectors. And we want to hear about your projects.
Membership is open to anyone. Join by going to the group page, or just post here and I’ll add you manually.
by
Paul Hardy Carter
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Fri Jul 20 08:39:16 UTC 2007
(ed. Mar 12 2008)
Monte Pego,
Spain
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How to fix an M? There is a scary sequence in Reiner Holzheimer’s film about Magnum where Larry Towell is banging his M for one reason or another (probably by taking pictures!) is jammed on the dashboard of his car. The sequence does not show if the car survived…
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there could definately be a post dedicated to on the road leica repairs. I still remember the look on this guys face when I walked into a bicycle repair store in this small rural coastal town here in Japan and asked him for a file then proceeded to pull apart my M6 and file off the base of the rewind spool. So often I had problems with the rewind on the M4 – M6’s, a small bump to the spool and it wouldn’t turn causing the camera to jam.
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John and Nathan, I’ve added you both to the group. P.
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Count me in. (I was just joking about the 50mm being a telephoto).
Wish I was collector at times. Years ago a LIFE photographer told me having Leicas was like having a savings account.
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It’s okay Paul – if I’d thought you weren’t joking I’d have made one of those little clay models, muttered certain incantations, and your camera would never wind film again!
You’re added to the group. P.
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You’re all signed up guys. Now go over to the group and start talking!
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Has anyone tried posting on the group? I managed to post yesterday but now I just get the “only for members” message, even though I’m logged in. But I can reply to the post I made yesterday. Wierd. P.
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Count me in too. Love my little Leicas.
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This sounds great Paul. Please add me in as well. John: I remember seeing that sequence of Towell banging his Leica M6 and thinking how careful I am with mine. The rangefinder can so easily get out of alignment just with normal use let alone intentionally banging it on your dashboard. This actually has been my major problem with them always. . . I’ve had to send them back for realignment many times. However, it always seems that a certain body will need adjustment more than others. Just got my xpan back after its range finder finally went out of alignment for the first time in the 6 years I have owned it.
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Ooh! Ooh! Sign me up, too! I’m also a Leica-dork!
;-)
Thanks,
Feli
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Count me in as well. Thanks for setting up this group! Aaron
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This Film Leica thing has really taken off. We’ve got 42 members now, which makes us the largest group on LS – after “Cleared”. I had no idea there were so many like minded people out there! Clearly there are a lot of people who carry a film Leica along with their digital stuff.
Now, can anyone help my with my M7 question on the group page?
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Awesome.. great idea, count me in.
yee ha!
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I’d like in also. Sadly my “M” sits too much as I have been sucked into the whole digital thing. I have TX in the house, a new brick of APX 100 (love it in Rodinal) and a perfectly good scanner so what is my problem. I need to shoot with the silly thing.
I’d love to see that video of Towell banging his camera. Where would i find that?
Neil
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Put me on the list…Please see the thread I started regarding the “M”.
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Count me in as well.
Thanks,
Roberto
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I’m supposed to get my Leica in about 2 weeks… Can I be counted in? :-)
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Diana, you have to prove with a self, “me and my leica in the mirror” ;))
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Add me in as well please :-)
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so this is what I got when I tried to join: “Your application has been filed and will be reviewed by a group manager.” whaaa…... ?
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Everyone who has posted on this thread is now in the group.
Pablo: The way LS works means all applications to join a group have to be approved by the group manager. That’s me. Obviously, if you just leave an appropriate sum, in cash, in a plain envelope, in the usual place, there won’t be any problems with your application.
We’re now up to 66 members! Perhaps everyone on Lightstalkers has a film Leica?! P.
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Please sign me us as well, thanks!
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I’d like to join as well please.
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Hey Paul, nice to see you got the errrr….tribute….
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I’m planning to sell my M6 TTL with 35/1.7 Ultron. Gonna put it on Ebay next week, but just in case anybody here is interested, I can be contacted via email.
thanks.
mikko
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I`m not sure being already signed up or not…But i would like to be! Thanks Andreas
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Hi Paul, count me in please. Thanky!
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Perhaps everyone on LS has a film Leica? Shirley, you jest, good sir! I can’t even afford thinking about buying a Leica! Maybe if I mortgage my house, but otherwise, I’m screwed, dammit.
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Alright, let’s start a collection to buy Akaky a bloody Leica. He’s only got a proper job that gives him real cash money regularly, every month, and health insurance, and a pension plan. But that’s not enough. He wants a Leica!
So what do you say we each donate the proceeds of our next picture sale to the Akaky Leica Fund? We’d probably have enough to buy him an M7 and a lens in a few years…
I must go back now to the shoe-box where I live, in the middle of the road. With my Leica. PHC.
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Akaky if you get a Voigtlander we’ll make an exception and let you stay in the group if you throw us homeless folks a party at the house that your bank lets you stay in :)
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leica M3 and M2 can go for as little as $500-700 these days. and it will last another 50 years. best investment in photography you can make. there are probably more of them still in use than any other camera from that era.
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Let’s see, if I dont pay for oil this year and I skip paying the school taxes, then I might be able to get me a Leica. I will, however, freeze my backside off whilst the school district throws me out of my house. Hmmmmmmmmm, decisions, decisons…........
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Paul, why living in a shoebox in the middle of the road is not a good idea…  ...but after you get splattered, can I have your Leica? ;-)
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Welcome Yiorgos, yur in. PHC.
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hi paul, you can add me to the group as well. hardly not online this time but will come back here soon. – traveling in east europe for personal interest is my latest. and love my M.
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Would love to be added to group. Shooting with M6 for years, trying out the M8 lately.
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Paul, please add me and my M7 as well, cheers. Guy
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i’m a leica user!!! R5 and 28mm or 35mm summicrom are my tools. add me at the group please. cherrs
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