ME Super and a 35mm is a great street camera, Boris. I used to use an MX with the 35/2.0 in a previous incarnation. Until a couple of weeks past I had been using my Canonet EE1.7 GIII RF, basically the same setup as Franks Leica but no interchangeable lenses. The past couple of weeks, I have been carrying an MX with a 100/2.8 hanging on my shoulder, and the 24/2.0 + incident meter in a small fanny pack as my walk-around outfit. It has been a long while since I routinely carried a camera almost everywhere I went, and I am now trying to get back into the habit.
For those interested, my photography-intended-but-not-the-primary-purpose kit is the MX with winder and 50/1.7, 24/2.0, 100/2.8, and a Vivitar 2800 flash in a small Pentax gadget bag. Full kit is the above plus the 80-200 zoom, 2x converter and, presently, an ME Super in the Tamarak bag plus the tripod waiting in the truck. Thanks to Stan on the list I now have the M100/2.8 a lens I have always wanted. On the other hand, my Sekonic 308 has a problem after 10 years of use. I will have to save up enough to have it repaired, but that will have to wait until after the end of the year. Strangely, it has the same symptoms as the Pentax istD prototype did. It shows a full battery but only works for a few minutes before it shuts itself off like the battery was dead. I wonder if it caught something from that istD? Ciao, Graywolf ---------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Boris Liberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 2:23 PM Subject: Re: OT - Blowing my own horn > Hi! > > ft> Thanks for your thoughts. Actually, I quick snapped these two as I was > ft> walking by. I really was concentrating on getting the two subjects more > ft> or less right. I knew they were sitting on the step in front of a store, > ft> but really didn't notice the other details until I had the print done up. > > It oh so often happens to me, though usually to the opposite > direction. I tend to not notice such things as poles growing out of > people heads, and so on. Though now, I try my darndest <grin> to avoid > that. Which by the way is going to be quite impossible if I were to > shoot walking by without actually looking through the viewfinder. > > > ft> I must say (and I'm no expert, that's for sure!), in my opinion, all one > ft> must do to get shots like that is walk around with a camera (any camera, > ft> although the smaller and quieter the better), and keep your eyes open. > ft> Take enough pics, and a few are bound to be acceptable. Shooting lots is > ft> what's needed, though. I never leave the house without a camera - and > ft> that's not to say that I burn 2 or 3 rolls every day on weekends. Some > ft> days I shoot only a few frames, others I do shoot several rolls. But, if > ft> I don't have a camera, I keep seeing all sorts of missed shots. > > Same here. I often see shots that I'd love to take, but I am > cameraless. > > ft> As much as I love my little CL, until I got that a bit more than a year > ft> ago, I was using my MX as my street camera. I was going to buy a 2.8 40mm > ft> Pancake, and I think that on the MX, would have made a nice, compact, > ft> relatively quiet (though not as quiet as the CL) and unobtrusive steet > ft> camera. > > My combo is going to be ME Super (when and if it comes out of repairs > alive) and M 35/2.8 bought specially for that purpose. > > ft> Then Dave Chang Sang put his CL for sale on this list, and Cotty, not > ft> minding his business as usual, told everyone how amazing the 40mm > ft> Summicron C is (and it is!), and for only four times the price of a > ft> Pancake, I was sucked into buying the CL. I'm quite certain that Dave > ft> sent Cotty a commission - they were clearly working as a team... <g> > > ft> I've never regretted it, though. It's a lovely little camera. > > Oh yes, I saw Cotty advertise his CL too. Well, too rich for my blood. > Though I think ME Super and M 35/2.8 is not too bad a combo. > > Thanks anyway <big grin>. > > Boris > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.515 / Virus Database: 313 - Release Date: 9/1/03
