Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is all satire posted by Kyle, right? Please, please, please tell me that it's satire... B. D. Simon Stevens wrote: > Terry Sham wrote: > > > I would like to buy 2 M6 TTLs for my outfit, a black and a silver, a > 0.72 > > and a 0.85, What combination will you choose? Why? > > > > 1. Black 0.72 & Silver 0.85 > > 2. Silver 0.72 & Black 0.85 > > Lucien replied: > > Chrome 0,58 and black 0,85. > Or the reverse. > > Who need a 0,72 anymore. > > Simon pitches in: > > To me it would depend on why you want two bodies. If it's to have > different focal lengths, one on each body more or less permanently > attached and with the same film type in both, I don't see that it would > matter. Just buy bodies with the optimum finder for their intended > lenses and toss a coin to pick the finish. The only case where I could > see a reason to go with one over the other is if you plan to do street > shooting more with one focal length than the other in which case > whichever that one is should probably be black. > > Alternatively, you might be planning to carry color in one, and B/W in > the other. I sometimes do this and have a black M4-P as my B/W camera, > and a chrome M6 as my color which I find is a nice aide memoir. The > problem with this approach is that I believe it's best to get two bodies > as nearly identical in all functional respects as possible. That way you > pick one or the other purely baceause of the film it contains and not as > a result of a factor such as the finder magnification. In this case I'd > probably just get two 0.72 bodies as happy mediums. > > My 1 cent x 2. > > Simon Stevens