Re: [Leica] Screw this ('n'that)

["Dan S" <dstate1@hotmail.com>]

Mike, get down to Central Camera on Wabash, they have a few nice screw mount 
cameras for sale there, including a very nice IIIG (if you want to spend 
some cash).  I find Central to be the kind of shop that
Oak Park was before the buy-out..

Dan





>
>Dennis: >>>Loading, rewinding, etc, etc, not really bad when you get
>used to it.
>Granted we are talking a user-shooter, not a pro out to return with the
>bread and butter.
>
>Lens? I prefer an f/2 capable but the old collapsed f3.5 Elmar sure
>makes a compact package.  Yes, the Summitar and Summicron collapse but
>not nearly so flush as the Elmar.
>
>Just do it Mike ;) and tell all about it.<<<
>
>
>Yesterday I went by to my formerly local camera emporium, Oak Park
>Camera (now owned by Helix) which used to be around the corner from
>where I lived and now is 60 miles away, and played with a "Barnack
>camera" for only the second time. Two things that struck me: one, that
>in a strange way I LIKE the double-windows, and two, that one thing I
>miss about the M4 and collapsible Summicron I used for a while is simply
>that my hands like to have something to fidget with. You know what they
>say about smokers? That one of the things that "addicts" them to smoking
>is that their hands like fiddling with the smoking paraphenalia? Well,
>I'm a reformed smoker, and I do like having something to do with my
>hands. The knob wind and all the knobs'n'buttons are perfectly
>comfortable.
>
>I like the "de-magnified" viewer, in an odd way. Focusing intrudes
>itself on viewing in almost all cameras. In SLRs, you are always looking
>through a lens ***at its maximum aperture*** which is not, contrary to
>the conventional wisdom, strictly WYSIWYG--the all-in-focus M viewfinder
>is perhaps more true to the f/8 and f/11 apertures you'd be using in
>daylight. Even with the M you are distracted by multiple framelines,
>those tyrannical little LEDs, and the focusing patch. It's strangely
>refreshing to set the focus and then dismiss it, seeing nothing but the
>image to be photographed floating amidst blackness.
>
>One could argue that the G2 does as much, except in that case you are
>perpetually unsure about focus.
>
>Of course, I *want* a screwmount camera, and over the years I've gotten
>very adept at talking mysef into admiring things I want. So maybe all
>this is not evaluation, but a not-very-sophisticated form of
>rationalization. <s>
>
>--Mike
>
>
>

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