On Mar 25, 2008, at 6:59 AM, David Savage wrote: >> I've been tempted more than once by the Voigtländer R3A fitted with a >> Nokton 40mm f/1.4. It's a lovely camera. I just don't think I'd >> actually use it enough to warrant spending the money. > > Chatting with him tonight he's going down to check out that exact > combination tomorrow.
It's an excellent body/lens combination and reasonably priced for what it provides. I like the flexibility of aperture priority exposure automation and metered manual together .. It's what I normally use with the DSLRs anyway. > He's pretty full on into film. You can go on a shoot with him during > the day & the images will be uploaded either that night or the next. Nothing wrong with that. When I worked with film, I liked to process the same day I shot too. It's just quite a lot more tedious work, imo, than digital capture with little tangible benefits to offer at this point. I see it as a means of providing 'creative constraint' ... limiting yourself to just so many exposures, just that spectral response, speed, grain, etc frees you to work within the boundaries in a different way compared to digital capture. Perhaps I'll pull out my lovely little Contax Tix and some Advantix B&W to do some of it. At least then the film processing is done at a 1 hour lab and the negative scanning can be fully automated with no manual film handling at all. I already own the film and camera, the scanner and automated APS film carrier, so zero expense other than film processing costs. And the Contax has a superb Zeiss lens with just the right focal length... :-) Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
