Hi, > I cannot seem to get used to the M6.
that's interesting. I've really grown to like my M3 quite quickly and now use it more than any other camera. I have a 50mm Summicron and a 35mm Summilux. The M3s 50mm framelines and the perspective through the viewfinder are really wonderful and well suited to street photography of the type you do so well. I've found that the psychology of carrying this camera and lens around is far more productive for street photography than any other lens or SLR. Because of the way the framelines work, looking through the viewfinder is like looking at the proscenium arch of a theatre stage, rather than the cinema screen of an SLR. Probably the main difference I've found shooting with this as opposed to an SLR is that I can't fire of a whole sequence of shots because I don't have a winder, so I have to be more careful about decided when to press the shutter. With an SLR I work around an active subject making a lot of sketch-like exposures, keeping the camera to my eye so that it feels as though I'm watching a movie and pressing the button is like blinking at the appropriate moment. With the M3 though the camera is up to my eye, down, up to my eye, down etc. I feel more like an uninvolved observer. Cartier Bresson said that Chim used his cameras the way a doctor uses his stethoscope, and somehow using the M3 has more of that sense of detachment for me. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sunday, October 21, 2001, 9:10:55 AM, you wrote: > Leica M6, with 50 Summicron and Russian 35 and 85 lenses. > I cannot seem to get used to the M6. I'm too slow to focus the > rangefinder, and sometimes I just forget it's not the MX and think > that if what I see is in focus the picture will also be. The other day > I spent about one hour taking the last 20 shots of a roll, walking > around chinatown in San Francisco. When I finished, I pulled out the > MX with K30/2.8 and then K85/1.8 and shot a roll and a half in 30 > minutes, in the same two or three blocks I had been walking around > with the M6. I guess I have to keep practicing with the Leica, but > don't want to give up the MX. > I also have a whole bunch of other cameras, like a nice Canonet QL17, > a couple of Russian rangefinders, Russian Lubitels 6x6 TLRs, some > Kodak Brownies, etc. More cameras than I need, like most of us. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
