Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I would get a Pentax Spotmatic (or similar) with the TM42 mount. Lenses are plentiful and cheap and if anything breaks you just buy another. If you want a rangefinder it is hard to beat a Bessa R. John Collier On Dec 19, 2003, at 1:01 PM, Adam Bridge wrote: > The IIIg question came up because I was looking for a small, entirely > manual > camera for a "youngster" who was interested in learning black and white > photography and has some dollars to spend toward that end but not > enough for an > M. (I didn't feel like loaning one of mine.) > > A IIIf was in the right price range with a reasonable piece of glass > and a light > meter. > > An automatic camera doesn't seem like a good learning tool because > it's too darn > easy to just flick it into auto mode and be done with it and then you > haven't > had to do the thinking required. After you have learned that THEN you > can fall > back and use automatic features. > > That's sorta how I think about it anyhow. > > A low-end used SLR would work too, of course, but I think there's > something to > be said for using a range finder and learning to work within the > boundaries of a > single lens (and a single kind of film too for that matter.) - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html