I'm Done.

[stefan_dinu]

And it looks like you had your web site re-designed! I have to say - I liked the old one better. But thats just me. Anyway - what did you get - those 7 new cameras that is?

The new version of the site is more like me. The other one was a gift, it was not my choice.
The 7 cameras that I bought after I was done:
1. Arca Swiss view 4x5
2. Holga clasic
3. Agifold Agilux
4. Rolleiflex (very old Art deco style)
5. Mamyia C220
6. Crown Graphic 4x5
7. Holga Stereo

 

[kevin m]

Alkis, AFAIK, Welles made the quote I mentioned late in his career, after the glory days of Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons. I believe it was after he finished Chimes at Midnight, when he had a very limited budget, yet managed to make one of the most breathtaking battle scenes in cinematic history. I saw one reel of a restoration in progress a few years back, and it was simply stunning. It's a real shame it's not available on DVD yet.

 

[raid]

Returning to my steak analogy, I favor steak medium-well, so maybe for camera equipment, I am "medium-well done"?

I am mainly driven by exploring new optics and not by new cameras. For the past few weeks, I am using a Canon 19mm 3.5 SLR lens on a RF camera.The "look" from this lens differs from my other lenses. If I were "done", I would have been missing out on the Canon 19mm experience.

Another example for not being done is using sme older Zeiss SLR lenses. They can be incredibly sharp and rendering images that look different from those resulting from a Summicron, say.

In the end, this is a personal choice for photographers [and collectors].

 

[trix]

I am done.....for today. But there´s that Diana+.......well tomorrow...

 

[shadowfox]

^

That is one good ending for a day! just beautiful!

I'm not done. I started to take pictures *three* years ago. Need to catch up with some of ya

 

[Letien]

I don't want to be "done". I find it quite enjoyful to rotate among lenses and cameras. Some need one car while others have three.

That's right. I don't have enough 50 yet!

 

[Bruin]

Really nice stuff trix...the pics ain't bad, either!

I'm pretty content with my cameras, lenses, film choices, and workflow. I even found the "perfect" camera bag for my ZI and a couple lenses. The only thing I've thought about trying lately is an ultrawide like the VC 15mm, but I probably won't use it enough to justify the cost. I did have a LOT of fun finding what fits me - from a Nikon FM3A and 28/45/90, then testing the RF waters with a Yashica GX, and then jumping in with my ZI kit, not to mention my experiments in developing B&W.

My next big thing will be a micro-4/3 camera when the 2nd generation from Pany and Oly get here...

 

[pevelg]

yes

isn't that great?!!

Do you have a link for the adapter?

I thought I was close to done with my 35mm system (M6TTL with 35mm Biogon and 75mm Color Heliar)... Now I want the G1 so I can take digital pics also...

I am currently working my hassy system...

 

[back alley]

Do you have a link for the adapter?

I thought I was close to done with my 35mm system (M6TTL with 35mm Biogon and 75mm Color Heliar)... Now I want the G1 so I can take digital pics also...

I am currently working my hassy system...

cameraquest will be selling them, available at the end of jan.

and novoflex (?) in europe, the info is at 'getdpi' site.

 

[Keith]

In this current ... 'I'm done' thread ... we appear to be talking mainly rangefinders which seem to me to be almost rotational amongst members in some instances. It amazes me when a particular camera will appear in the classifieds having gone through the hands of several RFFers before reaching it's current 'for sale' status ... often over a fairly short period.

Very little mention of SLR gear ... I assume Frank still has an SLR, I know I wouldn't be without mine for the occasions when it can do the things a rangefinder struggles with. For a lot of us our SLR kit seems to remain a constant while interchangable rangefinders whirl around us!

 

[raid]

Keith,

There are some SLR cameras and lenses that have no corresponding RF alternatives. The 35mm tilt/shift perspective lens, or the 500mm 4.5L for tack sharp tele photos.
How can anyone really really really [it has to be three times] be done?
After saying three times "I am done" with a given camera, you must allow someone else to enjoy the camera before you can again.

The images in my Top 12 folder of 13 images were taken with at least six different camera systems.

Canon FD, Nikon F, CV RF, Pentax M42, Rolleiflex TLR,...

 

[DEcevR]

I was till today .... Grrrr

I was till today .... Grrrr

Saw a kit today made up of 2 M2's one with a inop light meter the other without a meter, a 35, a 50, a 90, and a 200 (strange looking critter that acts like an SLR) for $1000.00 dollars. Everything but the light meter works and everything shows normal wear for equipment this old except a 1/4 dent on top of one of the camera bodies.

I don't know much about Leica's except what I read here but figure it is a good price for all of this stuff. What do you think?

 

[raid]

Go for it. Then tell us about it all. The cameras are worth $1000 plus by themselves. The lenses are for free.

 

[PMCC]

I've accepted a job offer from a university in Shanghai

Be sure to check out the photo galleries at M50 in Shanghai, and when you visit Beijing, at Three Shadows and 798 Space.

 

[sepiareverb]

That's not very nice Bob, but I'll leave the "gear-head" v "image makers" argument to someone else.

So just the insult then?
Truth & nice are rarely the same thing. :angel:

In that sense, you have to find the best available focal length, for the sort of thing you want to do. Perhaps prioritize for the kind of photographic problems you encounter the most. That's a kind of problem solving too. And that's what I think people talk about when they say 'I 'm done'.
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And nothing wrong with that if you continue to make the same images forever, but I suspect few of us will be making the same images in ten years that we are today- if so then I'd say that camera owner is already 'done'.

But really in the end, as with too many threads here it comes down to someone making a statement seemingly intended to provoke a battle. Why should I really care who is 'done' and who wants to continue to think? I shouldn't.

 

[noimmunity]

Be sure to check out the photo galleries at M50 in Shanghai, and when you visit Beijing, at Three Shadows and 798 Space.

Yeah, I go to Beijing regularly ( I live in Taipei, for 18 years ) so I'm very familiar with the spots there. My ex-wife in fact is a curator for the annual 798 DIAF expo. But the Shanghai I know is from the 1980s and early 90s and a lot has changed since then, so I'm looking forward to that. PM me so I can hook up with your relative in Guangzhou...

 

[astroman]

Ive been involved in the rangefinder side of thing for a year.I have had a R2A,Leica M6 and currently a R3A.And now Im looking at selling my R3A and my hexanon 90 and possibly a ziess 35/2 to help finance a Ziess Ikon bundle with a 28/2.8 and Ill keep my 50/2 hexanon.
O my god whats wrong with me!
Am I done?I think Ive just started.

 

[telenous]

And nothing wrong with that if you continue to make the same images forever, but I suspect few of us will be making the same images in ten years that we are today- if so then I'd say that camera owner is already 'done'.

By 'same images' I take it you mean 'images that fall within the loose parameters of a specific genre'. While I understand your point of view it does not sit well with the example of many great photographers: didn't Avedon shoot with the two-three focal lenghts available to a Rolleiflex (normal, wide and tele)? Cartier-Bresson mostly with the 50mm and then the 35mm and the 90mm? Winogrand the 28mm? Friedlander? Capa? Parke? Moriyama? Richards? Salgado? Webb? The list of luminaries can go on ad infinitum. All these were photographers with preference for few or even one focal lengths. Are they to be thought of as 'not thinking' because of the frugality of their photographic means throughout their careers? Is their photography not variegated enough because of the use of specific focal lengths? Are you not inspired at all by their example and practice?

More importantly, is it not possible to arrive at a solution to a photographic problem in more ways than just one?

But really in the end, as with too many threads here it comes down to someone making a statement seemingly intended to provoke a battle. Why should I really care who is 'done' and who wants to continue to think? I shouldn't.

How odd. Your penultimate sentence exemplifies the exact attitude you seem to deplore emphatically just one sentence before, especially as you seem to imply that whoever does not do exactly as you do, is braindead. Then again, why should you care? You shouldn't.


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[ChrisN]

In this current ... 'I'm done' thread ... we appear to be talking mainly rangefinders which seem to me to be almost rotational amongst members in some instances. It amazes me when a particular camera will appear in the classifieds having gone through the hands of several RFFers before reaching it's current 'for sale' status ... often over a fairly short period.

Very little mention of SLR gear ... I assume Frank still has an SLR, I know I wouldn't be without mine for the occasions when it can do the things a rangefinder struggles with. For a lot of us our SLR kit seems to remain a constant while interchangable rangefinders whirl around us!

Agreed. Where rangefinders are concerned in practical terms I'm down to a single M body and the classic three lens kit with 35/50/90. And a handful of IXMOO! I have other lenses (like that Summitar) that will sit in the drawer, and several non-working fixed-lens RFs that got "collected" along the way, which I could easily part with if I wasn't so lazy.

But separate from the RF gear is the 35mm SLR, MF and digital gear. Horses for courses!

I'm afraid I don't see any virtue in taking either extreme with your cameras and lenses. The only things that counts are to enjoy yourself and make photos that make you happy.

 

[Keith]

Agreed. Where rangefinders are concerned in practical terms I'm down to a singe M body and the classic three lens kit with 35/50/90. And a handful of IXMOO! I have other lenses (like that Summarit) that will sit in the drawer, and several non-working fixed-lens RFs that got "collected" along the way, which I could easily part with if I wasn't so lazy.

But separate from the RF gear is the 35mm SLR, MF and digital gear. Horses for courses!

I'm afraid I don't see any virtue in taking either extreme with your cameras and lenses. The only things that counts are to enjoy yourself and make photos that make you happy.

It's an interesting phenomenon and I'm sure I'm not the only one. My rangefinder kit has changed constantly since I became interested in photography and still resides in way too many cameras in my opinion and often having such choice clouds my ability to just take the shot!

Once I realised that a decent SLR kit was in order and decided on the OM-1/2 route ... that was it. I got the two necessary bodies sourced what lenses I felt I needed and it hasn't changed since ... I just use it and need to neither add to it nor subtract from it ... it's perfect.

And I don't have a cupboard full of SLR bodies and lenses to chose from when I decide that it's the format I want to use on a given day ... it's my only option.

I would like to be like that with all my gear ... one choice that I know will work!