Hello, long-time Photography Enthusiast here.

[Brian]

Long-time Photography enthusiast, computer engineer for a Day job. I've been taking pictures now for 60 years, my Grandmother gave me a Kodak Brownie that took 127 film. Instamatic 150 with clockwork motor drive when I was 8, 35mm Rangefinder in 1969- when I was 11, Argus/Cosina STL1000 at 13. Started with Digital 40 years ago with writing the image acquisition and processing software for custom made digital infrared sensors. Personal use: Leica M8, M9, M Monochrom, Nikon Df and Z5, Olympus u43, and Ricoh P&S for a carry around. I'm looking at the Pentax Monochrome camera very closely. Glad they brought it out.

Anyway- joined the original DPReview some 20 years ago, quit about 10 years ago. I have a DIY forum on Rangefinderforum lots of links back to and Repair Threads when a member asks how to do something and Lens Showcases on Cameraderie when a question arises. Simon did not like that, actually set the software to Ban links to those sites. It got ugly, he backed down, but I left DPReview.

I have a lot of lenses. Lot defined as > 250. Some 40 of those- converted or modified to work with Leica rangefinders. Some 100 of those- took apart for a CLA.

Oh. And I saw Elvis. STL-1000 with 200/3.5 Vivitar.

 

[Smaug]

Welcome, from SE Wisconsin!

I used to spend a lot of time at rangefinderforum.

 

[Brian]

RFF recently went to Xenforo, as did Cameraderie. It took some getting used to after VBulletin. It is fast and responsive, seems to be well maintained.

Adjusting the Jupiter-3, Jupiter-8, and others For Leica

This is the place to ask about adjusting your Jupiter lens to focus optimally on the Leica. Jupiter-3 and Jupiter-8 can usually be brought into good agreement by setting the Shim of the lens. Setting the lens for close-up/wide-open use normally involves increasing the shim by 0.1mm or so. Some...

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If you were on RFF- might recall "Jupiter-3". This lens had such a bad reputation that I bought 5 to take apart and find out why. I did, learned how to set them for use on a Leica. I might be responsible for the prices jumping more than 5x. The Sonnars are still my favorite lenses. For a while- offered a $25 CLA to shim for Leica, my clever plan to test a large number of them. I've shot with 300 or so Jupiters on the Leica by now. Also converted CZJ Sonnars to Leica mount, "$25 and left over parts", built up my repair parts that way. Skyllaney in Scotland offer this as a service now, I refer people to them now.

 

[dirk]

 

[Box Man]

Long-time Photography enthusiast, computer engineer for a Day job. I've been taking pictures now for 60 years, my Grandmother gave me a Kodak Brownie that took 127 film. Instamatic 150 with clockwork motor drive when I was 8, 35mm Rangefinder in 1969- when I was 11, Argus/Cosina STL1000 at 13. Started with Digital 40 years ago with writing the image acquisition and processing software for custom made digital infrared sensors. Personal use: Leica M8, M9, M Monochrom, Nikon Df and Z5, Olympus u43, and Ricoh P&S for a carry around. I'm looking at the Pentax Monochrome camera very closely. Glad they brought it out.

Anyway- joined the original DPReview some 20 years ago, quit about 10 years ago. I have a DIY forum on Rangefinderforum lots of links back to and Repair Threads when a member asks how to do something and Lens Showcases on Cameraderie when a question arises. Simon did not like that, actually set the software to Ban links to those sites. It got ugly, he backed down, but I left DPReview.

I have a lot of lenses. Lot defined as > 250. Some 40 of those- converted or modified to work with Leica rangefinders. Some 100 of those- took apart for a CLA.

Oh. And I saw Elvis. STL-1000 with 200/3.5 Vivitar.
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Thanks for sharing your interesting background and the amazing photo above. Congratulations to you, sir--you managed to capture the King of Rock!