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Three pairs of things in alignment. Two were composed, the third was chance. Rolling pastures south of Yamhill, Oregon.
The spring snowstorm we had three weeks ago created lots of photo opportunites. This country lane is probably used by hunters now but decades ago this would have led to a dance hall called Silver Pond. Linda's parents had their wedding reception there in 1936. I found remnants of a small dam and a concrete slab down there when I explored about 25 years ago.
Hard to believe that these two German classics are separated by 19 years. The elder of the two, the IIIa, was manufactured in 1939, The IIIg is from 1958.
Yes, there was a war in between. Even taking that into account, it's surprising how small the changes are. There are many of changes, all of them rather insignificant.
Both cameras have a fastest exposure time of 1/1000 seconds. Both have a separate dial for long exposure times, long meaning everything above 1/20 s (IIIa) or i/30 s (IIIg) and up to 1 s.
Both require the first 10 cm of the film leader to be trimmed with a scissor. And both require unmounting the bottom to load the film, which has to be fumbled onto a metal spool. That used to bother me, at first. I doesn't any more, I'm used to it now. No point in grumbling about such things. If you don't like it, a Leica isn't the right camera for you. No problem with that - there are plenty of other cameras.
No thread-mount Leica really is a rangefinder camera. The finder is physically separate from the range measurement. You peer into the little viewport that's more to the left, which gives a magnified image of the scene, focus, and then switch other other viewport to do the image compo. With the IIIa, the two viewports are about 3 cm apart. With the IIIg they're right next to one another (this can be rather tricky if you use them alternatingly).
Yes, that is ante-diluvian. It was obsolete in 1939 and it certainly was obsolete in 1958. No question about it. I mostly don't even use the range-measurement. I guess the distance and use hyperfocal DOF for focusing.
Zeiss-Ikon offered a real viewfinder in 1936 on Contax II that Leica introduced only with the M3 in 1954. In terms of ergonomics, the Contax ran rings around the Leicas. Apart from the rangefinder with a much longer baseline, the Contax offered a back-opening body, and a bayonet for fast lens exchange.
But hey, the reason why people use Leicas is the reason why I use Leicas. Because they are so well engineered that they just go on working, every single bit of them, decade after decade after decade.
Both of these two ladies make a wonderful, round ker-lick sound on shutter release. The sound of a well-made mechanical device. And both feel good in your hand, really good. The almost 80 year old IIIa even more than her younger sibling. Two good reasons for me to go on taking pictures with them.
The IIIg has a larger viewfinder and shows a parallax-corrected frame for a 50 mm or 90 mm focal length. The IIIa doesn't offer that feature, and its finder is rather arbitrary anyway. It's calculated for a 50 mm lens, but I use her with a 35 mm Summaron, so what I want to be in the frame mostly is in the frame, erratic finder notwithstanding.
The IIIg has a self-timer. It works fine, but I never use it. The IIIg also offers an M-sync for a bulb flash unit. I never looked into how to sync the flash because I only do available light.
Spring Flowers around Niagara Falls.
It seems like there's so much more to photograph when the seasons change. It's probably more likely that there are different things, not more things to photograph. Either way a new season usually inspires me to get out of a rut & change subjects.
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bringing water from below to above. One, self replicating.
The other ceases to duplicate the moment thoughts about it disappear.
What are we to make of the difference between things that manifest without thought, and those that manifest only with thought?
One could answer: "Thought itself is a thoughtless manifestation, i.e., thought grows into existence through no effort of its own."
To put it more clearly, a mind that thinks, grows into existence before it can think.
Would this be right?
Warsaw's retro 102N #5 and 13N #795, both serving the retro tram line 36 during the last weekend in the season.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
Two snow leopard cubs interacting together. Sadly the quality is quite bad because of the thick windows...
Little Miss Carley went to TWO preschool classes this year - one met on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and the other on Tuesday and Thursday. This is why I have been so busy the last couple of weeks. She had the final graduation yesterday. She is so excited that she will be in kindergarten next year. This collage shows both classes and her graduation attire and one of her Dad (my son) and her Mom dancing with her. That was so funny - then one of her boyfriend. She is such a sweetie and so full of life. Hope all of you have a wonderful Wednesday. Blessings and smiles from Nana : ) ! ~
Seen at a town called Jesus,Ibiza.
A road ran in front of this building then there was a large pool opposite reflecting the building.
Ibiza.
17 9 15
Film Photography
Mamiyaflex C2
Sekor 105mm F3.5
Foma 100
RO9, Dev 8 min
..Wilma and Sonja ..Stella Maris Jezera
I have been invited by The Huffington Post to post my images regularly to their photography blog. This is my third post: Rust and Roll on Route 66