Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > >Wow, life is easy sometimes. Half a day after you express your > hardware > >dreams, the thing more or less exists and is available online.... But > > >I'll have to see one some day and fondle it a bit before I decide > what's > >really right for me. At a few hundred bucks I might make a wide > gesture > >like "well, yeah... gimme one of those", and then check out what it > >really is that I bought. With $2,000 I have to excercise some more > >restraint. > > I know what you mean. Actually, if you were willing to drop to a 6x4.5 > format, the Fuji 645W is available for a lot less money and has a > similarly excellent lens. 45mm lens. It's not a folder but it's only > barely thicker than the standare 645 folder is when folded up. Last > one I saw at a swap meet was asking price around $550/650 in mint > shape. I've often though that would be a great "poor man's" > SuperWide... I don't have a problem with the 645 format, since I like to compose in-camera (the limits of the viewfinder are like an artistic tool to me), and my 6x6 negs get cropped to something rectangular anyway. For MF superwide I have a customized camera, which is essentially is a 47mm Schneider built onto a 6x9 Horseman back. This is amazingly compact. But then come the folder cameras into my life, and I feel I'm part of a magician's show: 'click', and the camera is.............. gone. I'll keep my eyes open for that Fuji, though. Bernard.