Recent status

Some government documents must be submitted to agencies due to the transfer of our laboratory next month. The exchanging information on Web site is only downloading a few of form, documents must be sent to them by a conventional way? Even now they put an emphasis on the official paper with a specific red stump mark?

I feel some lack of cabin heating capability in air-cooled VW 1302 Super Beetle in the coldest season now. Judging from the information in Web site, not a few Beetle user has some complaint on the heater system. I must check the hot air way, may be clogged by some dust accumulated for 40 years?

Because of the similarity of Leica M9 with conventional silver salt M models, I often try to charge next film seeking winding lever with adequate finger lever action, then I'm forced to realize this is not M3 but Digital M9! The rhythm to shoot one by one is the same as M3 though there is a difference of the bulk of residual films, like some unlimited bulk? As there exists some interval rhythm to open bottom cap for film replacing after 36 shootings.

Tele-Elmar 135mm takes good pictures as usual if it has some critical failure, mold inside and partially out of balsam. These kind of defects never affect on the resultant picture quality, just a look peeped inside. This is the same for me as Elmar 65mm macro for Viso-Flex use. As for 50mm Summicron latest model as a spherical model, no disadvantage was observed so world widely known a perfect standard lens.