Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I've shot a bit with Hassy's and they are nice- definitely easier to deal with than the Mamiyas as far as size goes and the glass is superb. I am not enamored of the 6x6 film format, though- hence my preference for the RB67. Personal choice there, I suppose. On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > > > I will most certainly keep and use my Nikon system. Having shot F2's, > F3's, > > F4's, and an FM2 I am a certified Nikon fanatic. The Leica will be a > > valuable addition to my toolbox and my vision. > > > Leica's and Nikons go together like peanut butter and jelly. > I saw this mannequin display somewhere I think it was a LHSA meeting with a > nikon hanging off one shoulder and a Leica off the other of these armless > things. "Kits" I think they were calling them I think their were Brits > involved. Brits like that word Kits. > Also in the camera bag they look good next to each other like puppies or > kitties. > > The perfect medium format hands on no nonsense companion to a Leica in a > came bag is a twin lens Rolleiflex; a 2.8 f. the Rolleiflex makes a Leica, > any Leica seem noisy. > > The best deal in photography today is Hasselblad. Less then half the size > of > those RB RZ monsters. 3x the elegance. A cube from Sweden. And again its > all about glass. Zeiss. As in real Carl Zeiss, Oberkochen. > Also found on the Rolleiflex. > > > > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >