On 8/6/05, Powell Hargrave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ><snip> Frank is not immune - he's impoverished <LOL> > > > >Well, there's that too... > > > Lost that excuse with your new position frank, so get enabling!
Actually, the Photography Gods have been pretty good to me over the past year. Hard to believe, but I've got pretty much everything that I really really want. Except maybe a DSLR. And an Epson digi-rangefinder (but maybe now I'll wait for the Pentax one - HAR!). And a Leica M-series - I'd love an M4 or an MP, or maybe an M6, plus a few lenses. Or realistically, the 90mm Elmar C for my CL. In the lens department I don't have anything wider than 19mm rectilinear or 16mm fisheye, or longer than 210mm - plus I could use some more Pentax glass rather than 3rd party (although I'm generally pretty happy with my 3rd party stuff. Of course, faster lenses would be a good thing (I've got the K50 1.2, which I'm happy with, but other than that, nothing spectacularly fast) I'd love to have some Medium Format gear (I almost typed MF - remember when MF meant Medium Format and nothing more? <g>) - I do have my Yashica Mat, which I love, but who wouldn't want a Pentax 645, or a 67II, or even a Hassy? Of course, then I'd need glass for those bodies. I'm not that interested in Large Format, but if I had scads of money, or the opportunity to get into it really really cheap, I wouldn't say no. I don't have a tripod at all, and I've heard that everyone should have a good sturdy one. If I had one, I'd use it (but damn, what would happen if my photos became too sharp?) I'm not at all interested in Autofocus (really). So, other than the above, I don't see how I'd be able to enable myself. <LOL> cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
