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Subject: [Leica] Summer fun at the Zen Cafe
From: richard.lists at gmail.com (Richard Man)
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 02:28:47 -0700
References: <7ac27f4f0908152021n2c001101g2fbe01897c37092c@mail.gmail.com> <C6AD06DF.52EF1%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Mark, you are a man of contradictions.

When someone says they love their Ms, you say, Nah, the true Leica is
the petite Barnack Leica.

When someone says they love their APS-C (or god forbid 4/3), you say,
Full Frame is where it's at!

When someone says they love their M8, you say, the bigger the better,
so Medium format it is.

When someone says they love their Contax 645, Nah, that won't do, it
has to be the Hasselblad

But then Hasselblad is nothing compare to the contact 8x10, or 11x14 to you!

Now the Mamiya 7II is too big, comparing to the Bessa III? But what
about its size compare to the Hasselblad? The 7II with 3 lens is
lighter than your V system, by far.

So what do you really want? May be you haven't found the system you
like yet? So everything is just not good enough?

I am happy with:
- M8u for 80% of my stuff
- E-3 for events and wedding
- Mamiya 7II for the large negatives
- XPan for the pano views.

What about you. What do you REALLY like to shoot with? Not 2 years
ago, not 10 years ago, but now?

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Mark Rabiner<mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:

>
> The Mamiya 7 is a monster with the extra lenes its a nice sized camera bag.
> The so called Bessa III fits in a jacket pocket.
> I'd put my money on that one being with you more than the Texas Leica
> system.
> The fact that you can pull something out of your pocket with that much
> acreage is lots of power. A half assed scan from a 6x7 neg could make a
> large print which could blow away one from a capture from higher end 24x36
> digital camera.
>
> Mark William Rabiner
>

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