On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Sandy Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Adam Maas <[email protected]> wrote: >> Anybody else read >> http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2009/05/a-leica-year.html >> Mike Johnston's little ode to simplicity and the Leica as a teacher. >> >> I'm seriously thinking about giving the basic concept a try. Not with >> a Leica though, but rather with either a Yashica FX-3 or Nikon FM2n >> and a fast normal. I don't feel like paying the Leica tax and my FX-3 >> in particular cost less than the eBay/Paypal transaction fees on even >> a cheap M. > > Also consider the Cosina/Voigtlander cameras, new rangefinders > with Leica mount. > http://www.cameraquest.com/ > > > -- > Sandy Harris, > Quanzhou, Fujian, China >
A good idea, but the bodies cost roughly the same as an M3 or M4-2 in user condition. Of course they do include such niceties as a sane film loading design. The lenses are more interesting. However I'm only considering bodies I already own. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
