Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dante Stella wrote: > > I am going to Thailand next week; I am starting to wonder what type of > camera I should take. The last time I was in Asia, thirteen years ago, > it was a battered Autoreflex T. I think that I would like to use > something a little different this time. I don't usually ask people's > advice about these things, but not having any recollection of travel > when it is 40 degrees C out, I want to minimize any extra weight or > wasted capacity. > > I usually take a Fuji GA645 for b/w(=35mm lens angle of view) plus > either a Hexar RF with Summilux 35 and Kobalux 21 for color. A couple > of things are making me second-guess the 35mm part. > > -- One is that with a rangefinder, it is hard as hell to keep a 21mm > lens level. > > -- The other is that after last month's run-in with donkey-cart racing > in Italy (when I nearly got run over), I started thinking of using > something with a 50mm lens for color to get a touch more distance. I > find that this is usually easier with an SLR than with a 0.6x > rangefinder. > > The creeping idea is to take a Nikon F4 (small grip) with a grid screen > and some selection of compact lenses (I have a 20/2.8 Arsat and a > 50/1.8 Nikkor). Has anyone taken this hiking around? Or is it better > to run back for the Summilux? The size is not a huge issue; the weight > might become one. > > If you go outside those basic parameters, the lens choices are: > Leica: 21, 35, 50, 90 > Nikon: 20, 50, 105DC, 24-85 > > Also, is the humidity bad enough to need silica gel? > > Cheers > ____________ > Dante Stella Does not a Nikon F4 or 5 weigh twice what a Leica with motor drive or Rapidwinder weighs and take up twice the space? Those are monsters! Any of Nikons other bodies would be half the weight i think you've got to lower yourself to getting one with less build. That's the trade off. Turns out the hollow plastic ones work just fine. There's a dozen of them the N80 is light as a feather the N55 as small as a Leica CL! But the only reason I'd bring Nikon stuff is if I also wanted to do digital and more of course than what the DIGILUX can Handle... in conjunction with the Leica gear we all love here on the LUG. Your "21, 35, 50, 90" I like my 24 and like you for some odd reason do not have the new 28 Summicron Asph. But my excuse is i've got the 24! I think you've got quite a gap there between 21 and 35 I think a bull could run through! Those 17-35 lenses are the default for so many working photographers cameras and not for nothin. There is lots of meat in that particular area. I say why buy a cheap zoom when you can buy an array of amazingly expensive primes that makes you get all fuzzy as you drop one while changind lenses! :) Mark Rabiner woof I love it when I can get a superwide to be level am willing to be philisophical about it when I cant. Diagonals are more interesting than parallelograms anyway! Portland, Oregon USA http://www.rabinergroup.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html