My father-in-law was an accomplished photographer. After his early retirement from his real job he for many years was the photographer for our local performing arts center (promo posters, etc.), he also did portraits, shots for musicians’ album covers, etc. He did one year-long series of shots from the house, looking across/down the river, capturing the seasonal changes; those were used by the City for their annual wall calendar that they distribute to every household. He used Nikon, Hasselblad, and Leica gear. I have his M-2 with a couple of nice looking lenses. When it came to me in 2010 I spent $xxx to repair the shutter curtain and a general clean/adjust. But lost my enthusiasm for playing with film and it has sat on the shelf since.
Meg has a D-Lux-2 and a newer D-Lux (Type 109), and she mostly uses those despite my periodic suggestion that she should use one of my Pentax cameras. When we first met she was using a Spotmatic, later moved to an ME Super so that we could share our limited set of lenses. But the smaller Leica’s just seem to be her preference. It is not unusual for us, when traveling, to stand side by side taking similar pictures of a scene. After we are back home I load everything into Lightroom and sort by TimeTaken and click through a preliminary selection. The technical quality of my K-5, K-3, and now K-1 shots is always better than her shots with a D-Lux, particularly in lower light settings. But we are not losing much if I select one of her’s because of a slightly different framing or other compositional detail. In the Blurb books I have put together, I can’t imagine anybody being able to differentiate which shots are her’s with the Leica and which are mine with a Pentax. Maybe based on style, but not based on image quality anyway. Stan > On Jun 21, 2021, at 11:03 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > So, I briefly owned a Leica, for Panasonic values of Leica. > > I saw a friend last weekend who asked if I was interested in a broken Leica. > My first thought was that it was some old film era Leica that no longer > worked, but which might still have a usable lens. Long story short, it turns > out it was a V-Lux4, aka a Lumix FZ-200 pimped out with a red dot. It had > been given to them, but when they turned it on they got some error message, > they tried contacting Leica about getting it repaired and Leica said “It’s > too old we don’t even touch those any more”. > > My friend dropped it off, the error message was that the clock needed to be > set, and there was some weirdness such that after I set the clock, I couldn’t > leave that menu, but when I power cycled it, it powered up and worked fine. > So I texted my friend that it seems to be fine, do they want it back, and > it’s going home sometime in the next day or so. > > But now, I can claim to be a member of that elite group of photographers who > have owned a Leica. Woo Hoo! > > > -- > Larry Colen > [email protected] > > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
