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In response to Michael Markey's "You need to try harder…" in another thread, and not wanting to hijack that thread…
Help a delta 3200, 75mm equivalent shooter find digital happiness: can you suggest a digital camera/system that offers the following?
1) Shoots monochrome very well
2) Has a good viewfinder
3) Doesn't engender metamorphosis from photographer to computer operations technician
4) Doesn't cost more than my car (not a clunker, a rather nice RSX)
5) Fixed lens with 50mm equivalent, f2.4 or faster (I think I've gotten wider with age), OR availability of ~35mme and ~75mme with the latter being f2.4 or faster
6) Reasonably fluid and extremely accurate operation
Preferably:
7) Compact-ish
Background:
My highest keeper ratio (not necessarily my most frequently used combo) has been with delta 3200 and a Leica 75mm, though I also enjoy lower speed B&W.
Image quality per se is not important. Any past attempts with medium format have resulted in, at best, "incredibly sharp, incredibly dull" photographs.
However, and this is big, the manner in which the image degrades (e.g. sharp right down to the individual grains) is very important to me. Mushy, smeary noise-reduced images, or ultra-clean low texture images are not appealing to me.
I have been considering a wide range of options intensively lately, but nothing really strikes me. If I could convince myself that a Leica MM type 246 would be the only digital camera I'd ever need to buy for the next thirty years, then a very slim maybe… but it somehow doesn't seem plausible.
ps: Right now the only cameras I own are a Rollei 35S (FAST = Focus, Aperture, Shutter, Takes the picture the instant you press the button) and a Nokia 808 (surprisingly good!), though I have tried quite a few digital options in the past.
Any suggestions? Thanks for your input!
Help a delta 3200, 75mm equivalent shooter find digital happiness: can you suggest a digital camera/system that offers the following?
1) Shoots monochrome very well
2) Has a good viewfinder
3) Doesn't engender metamorphosis from photographer to computer operations technician
4) Doesn't cost more than my car (not a clunker, a rather nice RSX)
5) Fixed lens with 50mm equivalent, f2.4 or faster (I think I've gotten wider with age), OR availability of ~35mme and ~75mme with the latter being f2.4 or faster
6) Reasonably fluid and extremely accurate operation
Preferably:
7) Compact-ish
Background:
My highest keeper ratio (not necessarily my most frequently used combo) has been with delta 3200 and a Leica 75mm, though I also enjoy lower speed B&W.
Image quality per se is not important. Any past attempts with medium format have resulted in, at best, "incredibly sharp, incredibly dull" photographs.
However, and this is big, the manner in which the image degrades (e.g. sharp right down to the individual grains) is very important to me. Mushy, smeary noise-reduced images, or ultra-clean low texture images are not appealing to me.
I have been considering a wide range of options intensively lately, but nothing really strikes me. If I could convince myself that a Leica MM type 246 would be the only digital camera I'd ever need to buy for the next thirty years, then a very slim maybe… but it somehow doesn't seem plausible.
ps: Right now the only cameras I own are a Rollei 35S (FAST = Focus, Aperture, Shutter, Takes the picture the instant you press the button) and a Nokia 808 (surprisingly good!), though I have tried quite a few digital options in the past.
Any suggestions? Thanks for your input!
