Ebay win - another rangefinder!

[venchka]

Those are very good photgraphs! That's a seriously nice lens! I hope my 1953 version is as good. I hope my vision is half as good. I have seriously procrastinated using my Graphic & Ektar. I must shoot 4x5!

 

[DougK]

Nice work, Chris!

 

[Mr_Flibble]

Nice work indeed.

 

[ChrisN]

Thanks, Wayne, Doug and Rick - I need all the encouragement I can get!

Sitemistic - I'm interested in your using the camera as a field camera, but with roll film. Now I'm a total novice in this area - what does "field camera" imply? In the little reading I've done so far this makes me think of a camera used in a very deliberate and considered way, with tripod, and probably using movements to control the plane of focus to achieve a deliberately planned image result. That also seems to imply using sheet film, to get the biggest possible negative to play with/on. Yet you are choosing roll film - why?

Any I think you are right - I will enjoy learning how to use this camera. Already I love its brutal simplicity and the fact that it does none of the thinking for me. Cheers!

 

[venchka]

Not only will it not think for you, it will bite you on the arse if you forget to do everything in the correct sequence. That's half the fun.