[Leica] which medium format?

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

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> I admire Mark Rabiner as a fine photographer and
> excellent scholar of photography in general and
> of Leica and Rollei in particular but I must
> disagree with him on the best way to use MF
> gear.  I almost never use a tripod for anything
> other than extreme telephotography or extreme
> macro work.  My Super Ikonta B's and my 2.8F
> 12/24 and 2.8GX are VERY handy cameras.  Those
> who shoot rifles know the trick for using the
> strap to steady the aim.  Well, a Rolleiflex
> strap does the same:  just hold the camera at
> waist level and push up on the strap with your
> neck to form a steady sight picture, and Bob's
> your uncle.  Most of my MF work is done with
> relatively slow films and without a tripod, and I
> take pictures generally deficient in content due
> to my own lack of an artistic sense <he grins> but technically quite nice.
> 
> I suspect that the major medium format systems
> have bottomed out.  Only a few companies are
> still making these today, but there are a gazillion MF cameras out there.
> 
> Marc
> 
> 


We both know goodness knows from these lists so many people who have their
Hassy's glued to their tripods and their Rollei's glued to their tripods.
Or wouldn't own a tripod. Its much more separatist in medium format.
Ansel of course as we know didn't do much hand held with his Hassy in the
last thirty years of his life and nobody thought much about it.
In 35 where the tripod nay Sayers have a bit more of a point they all seem
to get along better.

As we know it's like big dog people and small dog people.
Mac or PC. 
Schneider Xenotar vs. Zeiss Planar on a Rolleiflex TLR.

New York Yankees vs. Brooklyn Dodgers.

As the French say
Apples and pears.

Mark Rabiner
8A/109s
New York, NY

markrabiner.com