Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mike Durling wrote: > > I guess we digress from Leica, but what the heck! I got my Nikkormat in > high school as well. It came between rangefinder cameras because it > replaced an Argus C3. I found that if you drop the Nikkormat the meter > needle will break its mount. Using a hand-held meter never bothered me but > my wife liked that camera so much that I bought an FT-2 for her. I've since > fixed the FTN's meter with one from a junk camera and I am trying out the > trusty old 105/2.5 again. I don't have a Leica lens in that focal range and > the 135 never did appeal to me for the rangefinder camera. Finder image is > too small. Oh for a 90 AA! > ><Snip> Groundglass can be nice but let me tell you that a the 105/2.5 was my main lens for more than a decade but my Elmarit 90 M blew it out of the water and my new Summicron Apo Asph is sublime. I'll never go back to Nikon. I just use the 100 2.8 macro sometimes. I may get a Contax SLR with a Zeiss 100 for that groundglass thing again. And macro. But maybe an Leica SLR. mark rabiner