Goodness gracious. When do you ever find time to use all that stuff?
Alan
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From: Bob W
Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 12:49 PM
To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List'
Subject: RE: Which camera brand would you choose, if you started from
scratch?
From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Cottrell
On 19/10/13, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed:
>All of your camera gear has been stolen, but the insurance
company has
>given you a check to replace it with the brand new
equivalent, or good
>quality used for fear that is no longer made. How would you
spend your
>money replacing your kit.
Buy getting the same stuff again.
When my Pentax stuff was stolen I tried to get all the same stuff again, but
it wasn't available. The insurance policy was new-for-old, and I didn't like
what Pentax had to offer at that time, so I bought Contax / Zeiss, which was
fabulous film gear. It didn't translate well to digital, though, so I later
traded it in for a Leica M8 and a lens or two.
My basic requirements in camera equipment haven't changed much over the
years:
robust, weather/dust-proof
good, large, bright viewfinder
high quality lenses
simplicity and ease-of-use
Situations in which I use it:
casual, flaneur-type of stuff (street photography, I suppose)
travel photography, including cycling and backpacking
The focal length range I like is uncontroversial, although it's nice to be
able to go outside that from time to time. In 35mm terms, this means a
normal range of about 24mm to 100mm covers just about everything, and I have
a set of prime lenses as well as zooms that cover that range. I also have a
21mm prime and a 100-400mm (equivalent) zoom.
So if I had to replace it all, I would buy a Leica M with 21mm, 28mm, 35mm,
50mm & 90mm lenses. I already have all these, but an M8 rather than an M. I
would also replace my M3 like-for-like if that were stolen.
I like the Fuji X100, but I would probably replace it with a Fuji X20 - and
I am considering doing just that anyway.
I really like the Olympus E series, for which I have 3 high quality zooms
covering 22-400mm equivalent. I have an E-3 with battery grip which is
superb, although rather heavy. It's annoying that they've dropped that line.
There may be better things out there now, some of the
top-end-but-not-very-top full-frame Nikons are appealing, and I would give a
lot of thought to them. When I was replacing my Pentax gear though I looked
at the F3, and it was too much of a monster. Having become used to lugging 3
LXes around, I could barely even lift 3 F3s with the equivalent lenses and
winders.
B
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