A single M5 owner

[venchka]

Our own Todd.Hanz questioned my sanity when I jubilantly announced the arrival of a second M5. 😀

The Project: A Year With Bigfoot & Bubba never really got started. Now it is missing 50% of the participants.

Today I sent Bubba to a new home. In the Heartland as they say. USA Heartland. I know the new owner will enjoy using the camera. It's a keeper.

Down to 2 rangefinder cameras. Bigfoot and the Canon VI-T I bought about a hundred years ago. Lenses: 28, 35 x 2, 50 x 2, 85, 90 x 2, 135. I need to thin that lot.

I need to waste a ton of film. 😀

I need to update my sorely neglected blog.

Did I mention why I placed Bubba for adoption? A very nice, clean, Canon 1D Mk. III. 🙂 😎

 

[payasam]

Why does the centenarian Canon VI-T have no personal name?

 

[kdemas]

Sad to see Bubba go but I am sure he went to a good home. I sold one of my two last year, though the keeper is going strong!

Enjoy pouring film through Bigfoot!

Kent

 

[venchka]

My brain is blank

My brain is blank

Why does the centenarian Canon VI-T have no personal name?

I wish I knew. Nothing is popping into my brain. A contest perhaps?

 

[-doomed-]

I almost bought an M5 today , but passed up last second. The ugly M has a certain charm to it ,in a very square way

 

[payasam]

Wayne, the several Indian names I could suggest would mean nothing to you: so I propoze Bonzo.

 

[Jerevan]

Did I mention why I placed Bubba for adoption? A very nice, clean, Canon 1D Mk. III. 🙂 😎

What a ton of film you could've wasted if you hadn't bought that ugly beast! 🙂

I am at least happy that didn't send off both, anyway. One M5 is better than none. I guess that's the next step when the GAS for Canon L lenses are coming up.

 

[squirrel$$$bandit]

Why does the centenarian Canon VI-T have no personal name?

How about Vito?

 

[sepiareverb]

Just say the word Wayne...

 

[venchka]

...

I guess that's the next step when the GAS for Canon L lenses are coming up.

I have been using those since forever on my 2 EOS film bodies. That made using the 1D easier.

VI-T....................VITo. 🙂

"A Year with Vito & Bigfoot"

 

[payasam]

Vito does not begin with "B", while Bonzo does. Alliteration is the soul of photography. Someone said that, yes?

 

[venchka]

Meanwhile.........

Bob is trying to tempt me into squandering the rent money on a replacement M5.

Bozo.

Bluto. Bob Altman's "Popeye" is a favorite of mine.

"A Year with Bigfoot & Bluto" or, attempting to be an adult, "A Year with Two Cameras and Three lenses"

The whole concept goes down the drain when I think about all of the other cameras going to waste. Garage Sale of big cameras? Sell everything else. Buy a Konica 50/1.2 for Bigfoot to go with the 90/2.8? The Canon gets the 35/2.0 & 85/2.0. I'm beginning to sound like joe.

 

[johannielscom]

Popeye ofcourse is brilliant for a camera. But, O-live would be second. Or possibly o-live, if you are in the habit of stopping down more 😀

 

[johannielscom]

Meanwhile, I propose you name the Mk.III Sasquatch, goes nicely with Bigfoot 😀

 

[-doomed-]

Vito does not begin with "B", while Bonzo does. Alliteration is the soul of photography. Someone said that, yes?

I'm not sure that Ronald Reagan represents the soul of photography. Bonzo was a nickname given to him by his detractors.

 

[sepiareverb]

Too late Wayne, I'm down to one M5 too. So you won't be able to have Bigfoot & Bob.

 

[venchka]

Congratulations and thanks for saving me from homelessness.

Bigfoot and Sasquatch has a nice ring to it. Quasi-redundant but not obviously so.

To all the M5 detractors out there: When you heap insults on the M5's size and weight, you should be forced to heft a modern pro digital SLR and fast zoom lens.

 

[capitalK]

I hope they don't feel separation anxiety.

 

[Steven Dooley]

I'm a believer!
I just received my M5 yesterday.
I haven't given any thought about a name, though.

 

[hans voralberg]

Adorable Abominable? Just a though lol. The M5 is the only missing from my M collection 😉