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    Advice Wanted Macro - Close Up

    OK, up here north of the equator the days are getting shorter and it is getting colder, too. Where I live it is not the rainy season but the rainier season so outside photo jaunts are fewer. So, stuck pretty much inside I have to photo something, right? And photos of the kitchen get boring...
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    Leica A Small 35mm Lens Test

    I recently received a CV 35mm LTM f/1.7 and the advice that it is a good lens. I have been using an old Canon 35mm LTM f/2.0 (Black) with pretty good results. And I have the CV 35mm f/1.4 Nokton II. So why not compare them? I threw in an old '51 Jupiter-12. They are in order Canon, CV...
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    Camera Insurance

    OK, I have accumulated enough junk that I would like to maybe insure it. Who has camera insurance experience?
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    27 January - Scots Wha Hae

    Today is 27 January, the birthday of Robert Burns. Scots Wha Hae was the national anthem for centuries and still may be. Haggis and single malt all around! Auld Lang Syne and so may others have come to us from a man who wrote in his own language, not English. Lift a malt to Rabbie...
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    Leica Jupiter 8 on an M9

    Down in the West Mooring Basin with the '57 KMZ Jupiter 8 on an M9. I just liked the light, color and composition.
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    Leica Sensors - CCD vs CMOS

    I posted this in an old CD vs CMOS thread and I am not sure it was seen. If it was and was boring, skip this. If it was not, read on. I plan to do more tests. I have been interested in this discussion and am, honestly, personally fond of CCD over CMOS. But, laboring under the weight of...
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    Leica Cooke Amotal LTM 2" f/2.0

    I never really knew the Brits made lenses. That should tell you a lot right there. But I did remember THC lenses being sold on imported DDR SLR's way back in the day in the NY area. Rumor had it they were surplus BBC TV camera lenses being unloaded at bargain prices. They were, in fact, THC...
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    Leica Lens Test, Quick and Dirty

    Riding down my fave Stringtown Road this afternoon looking for Rhodies in bloom. I have one spot that has very nice ones in a clump at the end of a driveway. And I had a sack of lenses along with the Jupiter 12. So, here are six lenses: Canon 28mm LTM f/2.8 Canon 35mm LTM f/2.0 Canon 50mm...
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    LTM Jupiter 12

    I am becoming a Jupiter lens fan. I've got the Jupiter 12 35mm, Jupiter 8 50mm, Jupiter 9 85mm, and the Jupiter 11 135mm, all LTM's. They are all good lenses. They are all copies of the pre-WW II Zeiss Sonnars that the Russians got as war reparations along with other goodies. They have...
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    Documentary Laughter

    Laughter, the best medicine. The fellow on the right is dying of cancer. The woman on the left is a friend visiting for lunch, take-out from a local seafood restaurant. The fellow was a virtual hermit who let his daughter in only rarely. So it was good he let us in once week to meet and have...
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    TIH Dirck Halstead, Photojournalist Who Captured History, Dies at 85

    Shooting for Time magazine and United Press International, Dirck Halstead documented presidents, the Vietnam War and more. Time designated Halstead as their Senior White House Photographer in 1972. He later accepted a contract with them that same year which lasted for the next 29 years...
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    Now Showing in Your Neighborhood

    Hi, my name is Sandy unless you are a cop. Then I am John Doe. LOL I live in the Pacific NW and have lived on both coasts, Mexico and Canada and a dream military tour of two and one half years in France an hour from Paris on a teensy-weensy little post of about 80. Yes, I am an old geezer...
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