[Leica] Am I being stupid? (R content)

[leicar at q.com (Aram Langhans)]

If you are still planning on shooting film for the near to medium future, 
you are not stupid or crazy.  Go for it.  If you plan, as you stated, on not 
shooting wide angles with the R, and if you are looking in the 85-135mm 
range, then you are in luck.  Get the 100/2.8 APO macro.  That way you are 
ready for anything except for very dim light where the 85/1.4 might give you 
an advantage.  But if that is your range in focal lengths, you will not be 
unhappy with the 100 APO as a do-all lens in that range.  As far as bodies, 
I cannot speak to the 6.2, but I had an R4 and while it was a competent 
camera, the R8 is a far superior camera.  Metering is spot on, and the 
viewfinder is wonderful.  A bit larger than the 6.2, and maybe a bit 
unconventional in its appearance, but I grew to love its looks.  Did not 
have to grow into its performance as it proved that from the first roll of 
film.

If you are planning to go digital sooner than later, then bag the R camera. 
Maybe not the lenses, thought, as there now exists a multitude of 
possibilities to adapt them to anything from Canon to Sigma, if you can deal 
with stop down metering.  When I finally do give up on R lenses, one I will 
take to my grave will be the 100 APO.  It will adapt to anything I am 
inclined to adopt regardless of any metering problems.  With macro it is not 
a problem to take the time needed to make it work.

Aram


> From: Tim Gray <tgray at 125px.com>
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> On Nov 05, 2010 at 12:00 PM -0400, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>> What is it that you point your cameras at?
>
> Things that interest me :)
>
> No sports, fashion, brides.  Mostly friends, family, buildings, inanimate
> objects.  I travel a fair bit for work and usually take pictures of 
> whatever
> catches my fancy.
>
>