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Leicaphilia
Personal blog · leicaphilia.comhardwareculture
Leicaphilia is a personal blog at leicaphilia.com about hardware and culture. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Leicaphilia is a site about Leica cameras and film photography. HN commenters cite it as a source for camera brassing and rangefinder focusing, and discuss film versus digital photos.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Same. It reminds me of the "brassing" you see on well-used cameras that have a black finish over metal. The coating wears off in a distinctive way with heavy use. Example: http://leicaphilia.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/BP-M3-5414...
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on “iPhone 7”Submitted The Cult of Leica as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAre you familiar with how you focus a rangefinder camera like a Leica? You are NOT looking through the lens but a small viewfinder offset from the lens. The viewfinder is usually on the far left. Then there is another window a few inches away that are reflected at various angles by mirrors into the main viewfinder. When you focus the lens that angle of that mirror moves. This is what it looks like in the camera. htt…
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on “Photographer built a medium-format rangefinder”Submitted The Elephant in the Digital Dark Room as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHey Devin! There's a blog called Leicaphilia written by a—sadly now passed—photographer named Timothy Vanderweert who I would argue was actually more attached to the Sigma Foveon than he was to the Leica. Kind of ironic. I think you'd like the blog in general, but the Foveon sensor posts are definitely worth reading if you're curious about it: https://leicaphilia.com/?s=Foveon Also, I think this entry from a friend…
Comment linking /car-sick-the-view-from-the-man-on-the-street/
on “Automating my 35mm film scanning pipeline”Submitted Leica Liking and Other Matters of Faith as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI am not a professional. But I had done some film photography in its last days. The photos that I took during the time, just casually, tops any photo that I take now a days with by DSLR. It is not in raw "quality". But what are we trying to capture when we take a picture? Is it raw pixels? or is it some emotion that we originally got when we were looking at something. For some reason, I think film captures and regen…
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on “I Quit Editing Photos”Submitted The Elephant in the Digital Dark Room as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Camera Ergonomics as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dear Leica: Please Build This Camera as a story · 1 points
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