Cheating with your spouse.

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Note 'with', not 'on'. How many others have spouses/significant others who aso use M-mount cameras? You 'cheat' by halving the load and doubling the versatility. One body each, a third body for backup, 4-5 lenses between us...

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R.
 
My wife is not very photographically inclined. But, I have noticed that since I acquired my dads Nikon D50, she has picked it up a few times to photograph our son, he self-claimed as his own. I have bought her a Sony w120 ultra-compact, but, our son took that over too 😛.

It seems like every camera my wife tries to use, our son claims it as his own. So, maybe, I may cheat with my son down the road. 😀

I'll try one more camera for my wife...although, it remains mine, she can use it, but NOT our son!. It will be the Pany G1 with a 17mm pancake... No Leica for her yet.
 
My wife is an excellent photographer; however, she loves the simplicity of her Canon AE-1, since that's what she started on. I don't blame her. Actually, it makes me quite happy, since I could never swing that much Leica equipment financially. Some of the stuff she does with her cheap gear blows my stuff out of the water anyway. 😀
 
Almost. My wife is mostly an automatic/instant camera person but she got really interested in TLRs. Instead of sharing the load, we're out with a Rolleicord and Autocord. Not exactly the same thing...

She doesn't like rangefinder focusing but does enjoy using the F4s. I suppose I could take the FG and her the F4s if we go out. 😉
 
buzzardkid said:
😀 😀 Very nice Maggie!

Lemme add to the disaster: I don't even have any friends at all that shoot Leica's, 'xcept you lot here.

Any holidays to the Netherlands anytime soon, Maggie? 😉
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😀😀😀😀

You know, I think I'm in the same boat that the only other Leica shooters I know are all from here, too.

My SO shoots a D-Lux 3, but lately sticks to his D90 kit most of the time.

I would love a holiday in the Netherlands! But, thanks to caretaking duties for elderly parents and pets, I haven't had a holiday since March of '09 and there aren't any in sight...😡
 
I have a woman friend who once asked if my Leica was a Leica. It's all taped up, so I said "Nah, Russian knock-off." I was sure she'd want to borrow it if I had fessed up. (She's got my Mamiya 645 right now.)
 
My wife is a remarkably good photographer with little effort. I can offer up a disposable and she will get a few winners and say "that was fun".

She enjoys the Leica but prefers to just compose and shoot. Can't find a fault with it really.
 
she'll use one of mine if I ask nicely and put in her hands, but she doesn't seek it out. however, on some expeditions in NYC she has occasionally given me a sharp elbow to point at some scene she thinks I'm missing -- sometimes with very wonderful results.
 
my girlfriend has a Leica CL. but no lens for it, so she's using a J-8 I don't need and is stealing other lenses the rest of the time. not a real win-win for me. 😀
 
my girlfriend just bought a cheap fuji p&s. I don't know any girls, or really anyone, near my age that uses leica or hasselblad equipment. There's a DP I work with that shoots with a m8 and a m9, but he's like, 70. Wish I had someone to share lenses with, as I have only 'cheap' lenses... Couple Jupiter 8's, an Industar, Summarit 50/1.5, CV 35/2.5, CV 35/1.7, and a Canon 85/1.9. Nothing really of value
 
I'm working on it. So far we've got as far as (ahem...) a Canon 500D each, plus a set of shared lenses.

So far I'm the only only Leica owner in the family.
 
She grabs the DSLR sometimes and often gets great shots with it but otherwise uses her P&S to great effect, meanwhile I get to carry everything in exchange for occasionally getting her to carry my sunglasses in her purse. 😉

Since she's OK with the manual focus so I'm thinking of an EVIL camera so that I can shoot film and she can shoot digital all with one set of lenses. This is not in our budget for now and I'm waiting for a Canon or Nikon ~1.5 crop factor EVIL, so for the time being I'll continue choosing one or the other or carrying the whole digital kit plus film kit when required.
 
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