Old manuals for new user

If someone wish to have old camera manuals.You can do so by clicking this site.Just wish for some old stuff to be alive again.

Leica M8 during PhotoKina

I´ve tried the camera itself and it is thicker than the previous leica M series.

Fotokina at Leica booth

Fotokina at Leica booth
Originally uploaded by yabokz.

X ray effect with Leica mural

Photokina

Photokina at Köln was very sucessful indeed.One booth that captured my interest most is the booth from Leica.From all other booth the Leica put their Camera and all the Lens such as sumicron at stages.The stages is not lighted by lamp but by natural light.Some interesting idea though.I will upload more picture of leica and the lens.My hands is still shaking after holding all the leica´s.I think Leica made sucessfull move by joining venture with Panasonic .I went to Rollei booth but it doesn´t move my heart at all.It is not interesting at all

Rolleiflex SL35

Rolleiflex SL35
Originally uploaded by yabokz.

The old Rolleiflex SL35 made in Singapore

Planar 1,4/50

Planar 1,4/50
Originally uploaded by yabokz.

Rolleiflex Planar 50mm f1,4 with QBM mount ring.HFt is the word use for the coating on the lens surface.HDT means High Fidelity Transfer

Leica M8

The new Leica M8.tommorow is the opening day for Photokina at Cologne Germany.This new Leica combined from old M7 technology with new sensor.Croping factor for this camera is 0.3x



Kodak Image Sensor Powers LEICA M8 New Digital Camera

http://www.picturecorrect.com/articles/leica_m8_with_kodak_sensor_review.htm

Teracola soldier

I would like to show the differences on taking pictures between big and small aperture. Firstly, let me define what big aperture is all about. Big aperture happens when the blade of the lens is wide open. f 1.8 is considered as big aperture. It lets more light through compared to the small aperture.The smaller the aperture stops or the number after the small letter f (example f1.4) the more it let the light through.
Small aperture happens when the number of the aperture stops is big (example f22).The opening of the blade is small and the light get through is less than the bigger oppening.

The 1st picture is made into small aperture to produce the star shape effect at the light source without the help of any specialized filter. However, it requires a long duration of exposure to produce such effect because very little amount of light can get through the lens. The tendency for the pictures to appear blurry is greater. To overcome this problem, the camera is fasten on a tripod or onto something stable.

The star effect can´t be achieved by using big aperture like the 2nd picture, but you can handhold your camera without much blurry effect and the shutter speed also can be considered higher than the smaller Aperture stops.This kind of aperture is usable when the light source amount is small.
If I made mistake please let me know

F.length=50mm; Aperture stops=f22; Shutter speed=30s ISO=200

F.length=50mm; Aperture stops=f2.2; Shutter speed=1s ISO=200

Leica

Whats is all about leica that has been around for the time beeing.Firstly its the first 35mm camera that been develop by barnack oskar in germany.I´ve been once in a Engineering expo and there i´ve saw an measure equiptment that equipted with an optical lens.There is 2 type lens that can be equipt to that machine.One is LEICA and the other is NIKON.Whats the different.The Leica is much more expensive and the quality of the zooming is better than the Nikon.Now I´m talking about Engineering precission.Why some people saying fussy things about leica.I think Leica can be considered a luxury items such as Rollex for the watch makers.

In the Glas