Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In Amsterdam at least, I have a wide selection of 120 film. Even in Zaltbommel, the small town where I often stop on my way to work, the local camera shop has 120, although only the Kodak C41 B&W variety. Nathan Philippe Orlent wrote: > That's why I bought a Fuji GS645 (after a remark about it from Sonny) > from KEH last week. They rated it 8+, so in fact it's virtually new. > It gets pretty hard to find 120 film though. Kodak Portra 160VC is the > only thing I found closeby. I was hoping to find Fuji Reala 100, but > might have been too much to ask. > > > > Op 25-nov-06, om 19:41 heeft Nathan Wajsman het volgende geschreven: > >> ...something I thought to be very unlikely. But last week I played >> with Michiel's Bronica MF rangefinder at a meeting of a camera club >> we both belong to, and I fell in love with it. I have owned a MF >> rangefinder before, the Fuji "Texas Leica", but got tired of it >> eventually--too big, too plasticky, lens too slow (5.6) and not >> interchangeable. The Bronica RF is lovely--smaller than the Fuji, >> solid like a Leica M, a choice of 3 lenses, and a viewfinder and >> rangefinder that is much better than I remember the Fuji to be. The >> lenses are not that fast--f4--but at least faster than the Fuji and >> the focal length of the most common lens is more usable too >> (equivalent to roughly 35mm). The thought of doing street photography >> with a rangefinder but getting a 6x4.5 negative is very appealing >> indeed. >> >> Nathan >> >> --Nathan Wajsman >> Almere, The Netherlands >> >> Opportunistic Image Acquisition >> >> General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com and >> http://www.greatpix.eu >> Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >> Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com >> >> Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman >> http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 >> Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com >> >> Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog >> >> >> SUPPORT FREEDOM OF SPEECH, BUY DANISH PRODUCTS! >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands Opportunistic Image Acquisition General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com and http://www.greatpix.eu Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog SUPPORT FREEDOM OF SPEECH, BUY DANISH PRODUCTS!