Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/27

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Med Format (was: Have High Hopes for Heliar)
From: Ken Wilcox <wilcox@tir.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 16:11:56 -0400

What you need is a Mamiya 7. Even quieter than the Rollei and it IS as much
fun as an M6!

Ken Wilcox

At 04:01 PM 6/27/99 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 6/27/99 3:45:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
>harrison@mcclary.net writes:
>
><<  Love that 
> Rolleiflex, fun to use, not as fun as the M6, but tons more fun that the 
> Hassy. >>
>
>Simply put, it's beyond my capability to get a critically-sharp image 
>handheld with a Hasselblad at any shutter speed with any lens, except
indoors 
>with flash.  The Rolleiflex is a whole 'nother ballgame.  *Big* difference 
>between THUNK and 'tick'.  I gifted my 2.8F Planar with a Beattie screen,
and 
>although I have an eyelevel prism, on the Rollei (*unlike* the Blad) you can 
>see the whole screen through the w.l. magnifier so you can shoot at "neck 
>level".  But, as you said, not as fun as the M6.
>
>DT
>
>
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Ken Wilcox					Carolyn's Personal Touch Portraits
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