[Leica] Cameras I miss but don't miss...most

[hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)]

Good for you Douglas. Actually by here, I meant in Australia. I'm not giving 
up on the 120 film cameras, I just want a good
Rolleiflex! Sadly so do many others.
Cheers
Hoppy

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org 
[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Douglas Sharp
Sent: Friday, 17 November 2006 09:51
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Cameras I miss but don't miss...most

Hoppy,
A quick glance to the left of my desk and I see a Rollei 6006 and a 
Zeiss Ikoflex - some of us still do MF square stuff too. Projected, the 
slides are astounding - but, after digital (20D), it's really only Ms 
and R's that get taken out regularly, mostly to fill in the wide angle 
gap left by digital multiplication factors.
Cheers
Douglas
I'm still enjoying the flood of high quality manual focus glass hitting 
the s/h market at rock bottom prices - if I do find a nice 3003 - sorry 
Alastair, Oz is a bit far to go, and I only buy things photographical 
that I can see, feel, hear and smell, otherwise yours would be gone in a 
flash - at least I'll have a nice set of lenses for it. Then again, a 
nice RTS III might turn up too, who knows. :-)


G Hopkinson wrote:
> Dave I do believe you may have started a thread ;-)
> I picked up the Mamiya 645e off the Bay. The results are excellent, with 
> the obvious advantage of the bigger transparency. But now
> it sits in the cupboard unused. It's just that M's are a full time 
> occupation. The rangefinder type medium formats seem to be the
> only subset of 120 stuff here that has a mini following. Crazy isn't it?
> Still at least we are using film in manual focus cameras with the M's, we 
> haven't really betrayed the cause.
> Cheers
> Hoppy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org 
> [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf
Of
> David Rodgers
> Sent: Friday, 17 November 2006 01:26
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: [Leica] Cameras I miss but don't miss...most
>
>
> Hoppy wrote:
>
>   
>>> Camera Exchange didn't want to know about my Mamiya 645 I was looking
>>>       
> to sell.<<
>
> Hoppy
>
> Time for a little retrospective. Your mention of the Mamiya 645 reminded
> me of just how much things have changed. I started thinking about
> cameras for which I had a particular fondness. They are cameras I
> sometimes wish I still owned. But I know that if I did own them I
> wouldn't use them. 
>
> For me it's the Mamiya 6MF. That was my camera of choice, and just about
> the only one I used for a long period of time. Then one day I stopped
> using it. I can't recall why, exactly, but I think it coincided with my
> buying an LS-30 Coolscan about six years ago. That pushed me back to
> 35mm and my Leica M.
>
> Eventually I sold the Mam6MF. I almost bought another one recently, but
> I held back. The price was tempting but it's doubtful that I'd use it.  
>
> Anyone else have a camera they miss but don't miss?
>
>
>
>
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