Shel, Have you considered the Pentax 645n or the Contax 645? I was quite surprised by how light the Pentax was and how much like using a 35mm it was. Of course, the noise factor is not going to be on par with a rangefinder, but you should at least look at them.
Bruce Dayton Sunday, February 10, 2002, 6:37:57 AM, you wrote: SB> Good Morning Len ... SB> I should be sleeping in but my stoopid cats didn't know it was Sunday SB> and they wanted breakfast <LOL> SB> Your point is well made and well taken - faster glass for the Leica is SB> somewhere down the road. However, for quite some time I've been SB> desirous of a larger format, and have been looking at various options. SB> The more I look the better the Mamiya seems for a good portion of my SB> shooting. It is the only camera in Med Format that I've looked at that SB> can be used like a 35mm with my style of shooting. SB> The Bronica rangefinder is a 645 and uses a vertically aligned frame, SB> but my preference is for a square or horizontally aligned frame. There SB> are some nice Fuji models, but the current models don't have SB> interchangeable lenses. The Pentax 67 seems too big and too loud for SB> what I'd like to do. The TLRs, while small and quiet, require looking SB> down into the finder, which precludes faster shooting. SB> If someone can show me another Med Format camera that handles close to a SB> 35mm, and which is very quiet, I'd be happy to look at it. But over the SB> past year or so I think I've exhausted all the possibilities. SB> Len Paris wrote: >> Get a faster lens for the Leica. You'll save money in the long >> run. You can buy every lens that you can get for the Mamiya >> medium format cameras and never come close to f/1.2. With the >> money you spend on the Mamiya body and a few lenses, just >> remember the phrase, "I coulda had an f/0.0". - 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 .
