Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/25

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Subject: [Leica] I may buy another film camera...
From: gregj.lorenzo at shaw.ca (GREG LORENZO)
Date: Sat Nov 25 12:03:03 2006
References: <45688E63.9070305@nathanfoto.com>

Nathan Wajsman writes in part:

> ...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 thought of doing 
> street photography with a rangefinder but getting a 6x4.5 negative is 
> very appealing indeed.


per Michael Corleone: 'Just when I thought that I was out they pull me back 
in.' 

Greg J. Lorenzo
Calgary, Alberta

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