Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/03/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Mar 17, 2015, at 2:57 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > I used the camera intensively for 33.3 years and I never > felt the mirror slap and noise in the CM nor ELM to be the hindrance or > design flaw as its touted to be on this thing called the internet. I used my 'blad day before yesterday. No hindrances or design flaws found. Love it. YET - If I'd go photograph with that format at a church; during a service I'd take the Rollei TLR. and/or the Mamiya Press which I did on so many occasions. not the 'blad which is - simply too loud not the correct tool for those venues. for me the same sort of gear decision would apply for grabbing candids in close quarters. I'd choose between the lens shutters, without mirror slap, every time or, of course, the Leica Ms (over any 35 SLR). That's just how the gear "feels" to me. Don't like hitting a fine chisel with a steel hammer head. Unless that's all there happens to be available at the time. The 'blad is simply NOT a quiet stealthy piece of gear for me. It's a beautiful, extremely useful tool for a whole lot of different photographic applications. And as a system? Virtually unmatched when you consider: the SWC, AutoBellows, Tubes, FlexBody, etc. Regards, George Lottermoser http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist