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. Yes B.D. it is all satire here in LugLand. Steve Annapolis > 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 >