Re: [Leica] Leica R or Leica M

[Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>]

That's the whole idea. Have fun with whatever you have,to have fun with. I
like photographing landscapes and would indeed use my M camera if I didn't
happen to have the other stuff. I don't mind the long set-up with the R
camera or the view camera. My goal is always to be able to make good
20x24's with the R and good 30x40's with the 4x5. It takes a lot of work,
but it's worth it. I'm spending all next week on the CA coast, between
Monterey and Big Sur, well... as close as I can get to Big Sur. The road
(Highway 1) is closed. Spring is here. The surf is up. The streams are
full. The wildflowers are poking up their heads. It's Velvia time in
California.

Jim



At 09:48 PM 3/28/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi Jim, 
>
>Nice to hear that I am in good company. I just got a Graflex Super Graphic
>with a Rodenstock 135mm/5.6 APO Sironar for taking out into the field (or
>more like the forests around here). I was playing with a Graphic View for a
>while, but the way the Super Graphic folds up into such a neat little
>package really inspires me to get out more. I also have a 90 mm/6.8 Linhof
>Schneider Angulon and a coated 203mm/7.7 Kodak Ektar. Sort of like carrying
>around a 28, 40 and 65 on a Leica.
>
>I've been doing a lot of landscapes with the M6, too, and especially like
>the mirror-less shutter, since so often optimum f5.6 or a need for depth of
>field puts shutter speeds in the 1/30 to 1 second range. I still have your
>masterful treatise on SLRs and tripod use, but, man, that's almost as much
>work as a setting up a view camera! I do have an SL and SL2, tho, so may
>need to take your advice, read up again on tripod resonance theory and try
>them out again around here. Were just starting to get into that lovely fog
>and Velvia green time of the year.
>
>I love the contrast between the contemplative way I have to think and
>behave with the 4x5 in comparison to the instinctive shooting with B&W in a
> CL or M3. Somehow each way seems to sharpen the other way of seeing. In
>any case, I am incredibly blessed with a photographic full plate. Is it
>really legal to be having this much fun?
>
>Regard,
>Gary Todoroff
>Eureka, CA  
>