Nice movie-suprising acting from DiCaprio.
Contemplating the purchase of a rolleicord.
Nice movie-suprising acting from DiCaprio.
Contemplating the purchase of a rolleicord.
went to eilat for my B-day with Anna.It was fun.
finished For Whom the Bell Tolls.liked.Finished Borroughs’s “Junkie” a couple of days before.liked.
Love the nikon-shot 4 films and finished two.
discovered tmax 100 looks good in tetenal.
I cleaned it in 5 minutes-it made a good finder a great finder.Wow!!!
Thanks Rick Oleson,as usual!
http://rick_oleson.tripod.com/index-30.html – how to remove the top plate
http://rick_oleson.tripod.com/index-165.html – made the rf flare proof
Finished reading Stephen King’s Green Mile – a very nice book – I was pleasantly surprised
Watched Harold and Maude – A Nice Freaky Movie,original,shitty soundtrack – the shahid Cat Stevens
Watched Down By Law by Jarmusch – not bad – bud slightly to slow for my taste. Tom Waits kicks ass as always.
A friend lend me his Mamiya m645(top speed 1/500) with 80/2.8,two inserts,chimney finder,lots of filters and close up rings. He wants to sell it but doesnt have the time to check its operation.
I clicked away one film,will do another then develop – the camera handles well but is bulky and heavy to be used handheld for a long time. I like it.
2/2/06 UPDATE
I shot two films with the mamiya(both kodak pan-x 15 years expired developed for 15 minutes in tetenal ultrafin liquid 1+20 at 20 degrees centigrate) they are tack sharp and I want to print them by hand- not to ruin my impression by the overpriced minilab scans of shitty quality.
Things I like about the Camera:
1)Handholdable at 1/60 with no grip and normal lens,didnt try lower
2)very sharp and contrasty lens,gresat details
3)AE possible with prism
4)15 frames on film(not 12 as in 6×6 I am familiar with)
5)great image spacing-very constant(a problem with many older mf cameras)
6)Stop Down Via auto-manual lever on lens
7)80/1.9 is available as normal lens
8)losts long on 1 battery
9)very cheaply available today,lenses also
10)bright focusing screen
11)looks sturdy-I think it wont break easily if dropped
Things I don’t like about the camera:
1)no accessory shoe
2)practicly impossible to shoot vertical shots with the chimney finder
3)finder isn’t sealed- seems to attract dust
4)requires battery for shutter(6V)
5)for that sizeweight I would prefer 6×6 negs
6)needs changing bag to change inserts in mid roll-back is easier-but more expensive
7)no half stops on the normal lens
8)15 frames per film(not 16)
I want to test it with slides to see how the lens renders color.
watched the two above mentioned movies.
Statskiy sovetnik is pretty good(much better then Turkish Gambit) but still a russian try to outholywood holywood. A cast of accomplished actors makes the movie a good one but it’s the same actors you see in every new russian movie(plus 2 or 3old school one -Tabakov,Menshikov,Mikhalkov)
Hell is for Heroes is a movie worth watching as a mandatory manliness lesson from Steve Mcqeen. It is impossible being a pansy after watching him. Even with such a queer ass last name and the fact he went back into religion before he died he still is the man.
Now a biography leeched from imdb and commented by me
“Steve McQueen was known for his wild antics and crazy lifestyle. He loved motorcycles(triumph) and fast cars. He performed most of his stunts and many he wasn’t supposed to.”
Everyone knows that a manly man needs to be a speed freak. Triumph bikes are for real men.
“Trained in Tang Soo Do with 9th degree blackbelt Corps.Was a pallbearer at the funeral of Bruce Lee.Served in the United States Marine “
Violence is manly.being connected to the king of ultra violence is Meega-Manly.
Serving in the marines is Giga-Manly.It is so manly you grow extra nuts.
“In the sixties, he publically threatened to break Howard Hughes nose if Hughes did not stop harassing Mamie Van Doren, a woman both men had had affairs with, but at different times. Needless to say, Hughes never bothered Van Doren again.”
Hughes is the aviator as portrayed but that girl leonardo dicaprio.Tell me you wouldnt like to kick his ass.
“Dropped out of school in 9th grade.Was expelled from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) for riding his motorcycle through the College of Fine Arts building.”
Schools out for summer.
To sum up – the last 3 or so minutes of the movie Hell is for Heroes should teach you how to die like a Real Man-through dynamite at nazi pillbox,get machineguned,repeat,die.
A well written book.A lot of pleasant inuendo about unpleasant life facts. A story of a normal person meeting an unordinary person(a brush with greatness) and being changed for life(the picture of dorian gray,the little prince are examples I can think of).
North by northwest- a great movie if you could get someone instead of cary grant – i hate that latent homosexual,with his fake tan and shitty humor.Hitchcock is obviously a great director
Night on earth-simple camera technique-great script and directing.A truly good movie looking like it’s easy to make and reflects on th banalities of life.
I have finished the above mentioned books.
Confederancy of Dunces(John Kennedy Toole)- a sixties classic,not very wide known to the general public today.A worthwihile bookhystericly funny,unlike the life of the author.
Pet Cemetary -introduction is not necesary – in short if you need a book that doesnt challenge you much to read on a plane or a bus to work(like i did) it’s a good candidate – my “new” book for the ride to work is “Green Mile”, my new bedside books will be either Kapote’s “breakfast at tiffany’s”(which I started) or Hemingway’s “A Moveable Feast”.Maybe rereading Lolita.
feels great!now testing it with a loaned 50/1.4 ai and 200 sensia.