One problem with having the best equipment: All lousy photographs are one you.
Mostly boats, beach, some street, landscape. 90% B&W - Acros 100, 10% or less Color Ektar 100.These are the only two films I shoot. NO digital. Budget open, but I am a shooter not a collector. The camera will be used not saved in a cabinet.
My go to lens on my Hasselblads are 80MM, 150MM,(portraits) and a superwide camera. Almost all the work that I sell are taken with the 80 (boats) or superwide (landscapes). By far the biggest prices are paid for the superwide pictures that are hand printed, wet prints. This camera will be for fun not to sell pictures.
If those are your criteria there are many less expensive ways of fulfilling your goals. A plastic lens point and shoot will give you all those for less than the price of a beer.Result often comes with crooked horizon, un-perfect exposure and OOF.
If those are your criteria there are many less expensive ways of fulfilling your goals. A plastic lens point and shoot will give you all those for less than the price of a beer.
Lomography is fridges to Eskimos, I'm thinking of the kind of cameras that have a fixed aperture, no means of focusing and come 25 to a box on eBay. The ones that contain somebody's roll of film with three successive Christmases and the men have mullets on every frame.It is called as "lomography" then and required expired color film or E-6 film in C-41. I have tried it.
Lomography is fridges to Eskimos, I'm thinking of the kind of cameras that have a fixed aperture, no means of focusing and come 25 to a box on eBay. The ones that contain somebody's roll of film with three successive Christmases and the men have mullets on every frame.
The upmarket version is a Bessa L, a wonky Russian lens and no viewfinder. I had two Lubitels when they cost £12 and Dianas were sold alongside rubber snakes and fart powder and cost the same price. It doesn't require a Leica budget to go there.
I bought a box of 50 for £5, no other bids, and only a Kodak was lifeless from battery leakage. The other 49 were good, many looked like they'd barely seen a film. The usual mix of 80s and 90s fixed lens and zoom compacts, from plastic lens snappers to 6-element jobs with an output like an SLR. Film compacts are almost literally worthless, unless they have T4, Mju or similar on the side. Anyway, we're drifting off topic from the necessity of Leica ownershipAll of these ebay sold old cameras .... most of them sold in the box for 25$ will come DOA. One or two will work for a while and clunk out no matter how simple they are. And do you really want to use someone else old junk for your creative photography?
I bought a box of 50 for £5, no other bids, and only a Kodak was lifeless from battery leakage. The other 49 were good, many looked like they'd barely seen a film. The usual mix of 80s and 90s fixed lens and zoom compacts, from plastic lens snappers to 6-element jobs with an output like an SLR. Film compacts are almost literally worthless, unless they have T4, Mju or similar on the side. Anyway, we're drifting off topic from the necessity of Leica ownership
Over one thousand four hundred pages of sharp Leica pictures in just one thread here:Never own a Leica but I think Leica lenses are very sharp. Just don't see too many sharp pictures taken with the Leica.
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