Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's very simple - you buy and use what you like. I listed about 5-6 shots of my Chinatown projects that were shot on the Perar 35. All of the images have been shown as 1000-1200 pixels wide. No one has ever said, "say Richard, those images particularly suck more than the others." So we can talk about gears all days and all their flaws, or use what we like and shoot like mad. The results are the results. If I have a closet full of Leica lens and no digital M bodies, I'd buy a cheap ass m4/3 or a Ricoh GR with M adapter and shoot with the Leica lens, all days and nights. Yea, it only uses part of the image circle but I'd get the M lens out of the closet and onto a picture taking apparatus where they belong. That's what I did with the Epson E-D1. While people are still waiting for their digital M body, I have been shooting digitally with my M lens since 2005. SEVEN YEARS ago. And now the choices are even wider. Any of the mirrorless cameras has M adapter. IMHO, there is no excuse for not taking the M lens out. Period. One may prefer Canon, Nikon or whatever because of the zoom, liveview, autofocus etc. etc. Sure that's fine. Heck, I may have to give up on my M lens when my eyesight get worse :-( but the lack of a camera body is no longer a reasonable excuse. -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>