Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My Mamiya 6 and three lenses are smaller and about the same weight as a Canon EOS-1n or Nikon F4/F5 and three lenses. It isn't leica, but I carry it, hike with it, ski with it all day long. You've been spoiled by Leica M. Tom At 11:15 PM 9/30/98 -0600, you wrote: > >-----Original Message----- >From: BIRKEY, DUANE <dbirkey@hcjb.org.ec> >>I sold my 3 lens Hasselblad kit to buy Leica. For me, I found few >>practical advantages of having the Hasselblad and it costs too much for >>long or wide lenses. It's certainly not handholdable and forget >>available light work. It weighs too much and isn't very portable unless >>you have an assistant or a pack mule to carry it for you [snip] > >I think it's great to have an SLR such as the Hasselblad to complement a >Leica M outfit, and for what it is, the Hasselblad is not overly large: It's >boxy shape fits nicely into a lens-sized pouch in one's camera bag, and the >square format is a natural for any camera used with waist level finder. It's >great for more deliberate images (ones not requiring camera movements), yet >is still very handy to use. > >But...I'm not happy with the price or the weight of most of the lenses! I >hope to rent the Mamiya 645 Pro and Bronica ETRSi outfits and see what they >can do for me. I had previously tried replacing the Leica M altogether with >one compact MF camera or another, but this never quite worked out, as the >camera maybe was too heavy (try carrying a Mamiya Six outfit everywhere), or >it didn't focus as close as I wanted. Though the Mamiya Six was certainly >the most Leica-like, I think the Fuji GA645 was closer to being the ideal >go-anywhere Leica M replacement, never mind attempting any of that fancy >available light stuff :-) > >Jeff > > ================================== Thomas Kachadurian WEB PAGE: http://members.aol.com/kachaduria