Leading edge? Trailing edge? Tail section?

[sreed2006]

Just one button, too.

But there is something really cool about that button! When rewinding the film, the shutter release button turns. The button has a black dot on it to make it easier to see it turning. As soon as the film come off the take-up spool and gets past the gears, the shutter button stops turning. That makes it super-easy to know when to stop rewinding, and not have the leader pulled into the film canister. Now I'm sure that was leading edge in the 50's, but I'd never seen anything like that before.

 

[shadowfox]

It depends.
If they came up with a Full-frame OM-D or Ricoh GR or Pentax K that fits my budget, I'd be reaching out from the airplane nose

... 😀

 

[Rob-F]

Well, I just bought an M5 and a Mamiya 7ii. Guess that puts me pretty far back, at least lately. For digital, I'd say I'm at the trailing edge but not at the tail, with M8.2, D-Lux 6, X100, X10. Interestingly, that is exactly where I sit in the airplane--behind the wing. I like to watch the control surfaces. Ailerons and flaps are very cool. And I like to get the wing in photos.

 

[thegman]

Near the tail I suppose, I don't own any camera which could be considered 'new', except maybe the Fotoman 4x5, which although only a year or so old, is obviously rather low tech.

I could be tempted with a GF670 though.

 

[zuiko85]

As I said in another forum;

There are cameras with meters!?!?
When did this happen?

Oh yeah, waiting for my Wanderlust 4X5 too.

 

[LSiemens]

way at the back in retirement; formerly bleeding edge

way at the back in retirement; formerly bleeding edge

I recently retired from a career in professional communications design in which still and motion photography were both significant elements of my work, and equipment acquisitions were nearly always bleeding edge. Not long ago I donated all of my pro digital gear to a local high school, and I'm exclusively shooting what I consider trailing edge of wing (12 year old Bronica rf645) and tail section medium format and 35mm gear retrieved from my closets.

In the early 60s, the inimitable poet and camera salesman at Chicago's Altman Camera, Selwyn Schwartz, put this poor college student onto a new Konica Autoreflex T with a 57mm Hexanon AR f1.4 lens. At the time I liked my results, but envied my UofChicago photographer friends, who all had more money than I did, and were shooting the Nikons and Leicas I aspired to get, and eventually did (the Leicas that is). Having never heard of the Konica before that, I thought I had settled for an inferior kit. I have just begun culling and reorganizing my personal chromes and negs from those early days and will now admit something I would never have done at any time before now. I have discovered those early negs have a quality that holds up against anything I've since shot with any other 35mm format lens, with my Noctilux the possible only exception. I now wish I'd not been so anxious to replace that gear and had a longer history of negatives from that lens.

 

[lynnb]

I guess a Brownie Model 2 puts me in a hot air balloon. But mostly I'm at the trailing edge or warming my hands on the APU in the tail.

 

[jsrockit]

All of the above.

 

[hepcat]

In the early 60s, the inimitable poet and camera salesman at Chicago's Altman Camera, Selwyn Schwartz, put this poor college student onto a new Konica Autoreflex T with a 57mm Hexanon AR f1.4 lens.

I have discovered those early negs have a quality that holds up against anything I've since shot with any other 35mm format lens, with my Noctilux the possible only exception. I now wish I'd not been so anxious to replace that gear and had a longer history of negatives from that lens.

I sold a TON of those Autoreflex T cameras in the day... and that 57mm AR f/1.4 lens was the equal or better of any glass on the market. Konica AR bodies were loud and clunky, but their lenses were superb.

Oh, and I shoot with M8/M9P/M4-P bodies, two Hassy 500 bodies, and a Panny GX-1. I guess I'll never get off the ground?

 

[daveleo]

😀 Looking at the responses, yeh ..... I should have included "I'm in the ground crew" as one of the choices.

 

[Dirk]

Tail section all the way! Not only do I love cutting edge technology from the '50s, but I'm too cheap to buy something at MSRP just because it just came out. If I can buy used, so much the better!

 

[Rayt]

My most often used camera is a Rolleiflex from the 50's so I guess that means first class 🙂

 

[Cyriljay]

Leica M6/ M8 / Hasselblad Square and Panoramic.... First Class I guess ?