I hope that the surgery has gone well and you are running around taking photographs.
Reading you guys is making me really look forward to Thursday next week when I get my right eye cataract fixed.
I have my Right eye surgery in the morning and we're just back in N.C., on our way home in Charlotte, from a short four day road trip to Tennessee and Virginia, where I got just at a few b&w photographs.
It's nice to be able to use the 45⁰ finder with my Left eye, without glasses!
Just gassed up in, Sparta, NC, and we're just cruising out of town, eyes open for more photographic opportunities.
A roll of Velvia 50 loaded in a Hasselblad magazine, just in case we find it, in living colour.
Just crossed the Eastern divide, I hope to get this way again before Summer ends, with both eyes enjoying the drives through the mountains.
Cheers
I had my right eye cataract surgery on the 29th of July 2022, I always will remember the date because it was the hottest day in recorded history in Britain, it was over 100 F.
What a clever idea! What we need is a spotmeter that also measures distance.I have an older colleague who uses an electronic laser distance measuring device as used on golf courses (made by Leica) to check the focussing on his Hasselblad, and as his hands aren't that 'stable' any more, he shoots on a (carbon fiber-) tripod, his photo's are all tack sharp...
Let's consider a less expensive than Leica range finder make we like in general for the closest distance to 1000 mm lense's furtherance marked distance, not infinity, and decide on its possible features, beyond weather/cold & hottest operational accuracy and waterproofing to 30 meters.
It's not that I don't like the Leica laser rangefinder, I do and would to own one, but the name/expensive of buying is prohibited to me and many others here.
Then we should think about which makers
of reasonable costs analog light meters, that would be approachable to the marriage of both techs, with a digital distance laser and analog light meter.
I know it's an unlikely scenario, but Ilford's owner might be interested in possibly marketing, putting the Ilford brand name on the finished product.
IMO
I hope that the surgery has gone well and you are running around taking photographs.
I can confirm that the Leica one is very good - I used one for wildlife surveying over a couple of years. For many/most common photographic purposes, though, anything over 20m is effectively at infinity. If anyone does need to focus a lens accurately on more distant objects, be aware that mist or just moisture-laden air seriously limits the range of such a rangefinder. That can quite often be an issue in some climates (e.g. here in the UK).That he got a Leica is because Leica was at the time one of the first to present a laser meter with enough fare away metering possibilities, the ones for the construction applications hardly surpass 60m...
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