Moleskine Fact

[Socke]

Seen them in a bookstore recently when I was there to pick up a new calendar and other stuff for my filoflex copy.

Those notebooks are not for me, I need something more organized.

 

[Sparrow]

Here in the UK Moleskines are pants

 

[BillP]

Here in the UK Moleskines are pants

I think you mean trousers...


Regards,

Bill

 

[tbarker13]

Absolutely love moleskins. Though I can't really figure out how this quite fits into the category of Leica M cameras.

Maybe we need another forum for camera accesories/writing instruments.🙂

 

[Sparrow]

I think you mean trousers...


Regards,

Bill

What I mean is unimportant, understanding is the thing
🙂

 

[Roger Vadim]

Very nice Bill, evokes a lust for travelling...
may I ask what what bag you are using there? lokks perfect!
nice shoot, indeed,
michael

Ah, the thread... couldn't live with mine, lives in my pocket , is brain and conversational partner. need to buy a new shelf for all the fully writen ones...

 

[BillP]

It's a Safrotto, with a Domke insert from an Armadillo 30. I packed the Safrotto in my checked baggage, and the Armadillo was my carry-on, with cameras, iPod, etc, etc. When I arrived, I took the insert out, and popped it in the Safrotto. It worked really well.

I enjoy wandering around a place then sitting and letting it wash around me. I use my travel Moleskine (as opposed to my work one) to record my impressions of a place. I like to paint pictures with words as well as with film.

Regards,

Bill

 

[BillP]

What I mean is unimportant, understanding is the thing
🙂

...I understand 😀

Regards,

Bill

 

[Way]

My Newton Messagepad - The large format of PDAs! Great for notetaking, scribbling
and the handwriting recognition is really very good.

 

[Freakscene]

>Ah Moleskines and Rotring Rapidograph or something like that

Exactly, not something 😎 I really like the fine lines and deep black of the carbon ink. I have a background in scientific illustration; this makes me familiar with them.

Marty

 

[kully]

I've been using Moleskin(e)s for a few years, their one year diaries are the only ones that can survive a year with me.

But. I don't understand these new softcover notebooks - they're the same price but with less pages ... (confused).

 

[Spluff]

Sorry to disagree with most of you. Although I have a few Moleskins, I don't rate them; they just are no good with fountain pens. I spoke to few chaps the other day who have been in the paper industry for a long time and they were not overly impressed with the paper quality; something to do with the bone-china content. Still, they look good, and admitedly, the binding is very secure.

Just one other thing, I don't believe the manufacturing process is the same as the original Moleskins. These ones are made by an Italian Firm - Modo & Modo I think. I'm not sure who made the originals.

Perhaps we can have a thread about fountain pens 🙂

 

[kully]

There was a massive fountain pen thread Spluff, do a search to behold it.

As for fountain pens & these moleskines - get the sketchbook rather than the standard paper, much better.

Have you found a better notebook for fountain pens?

 

[Spluff]

There was a massive fountain pen thread Spluff, do a search to behold it.

As for fountain pens & these moleskines - get the sketchbook rather than the standard paper, much better.

Have you found a better notebook for fountain pens?

I must look that fountain pen thread up - and perhaps revive it! 🙂

Yes there are better notebooks out there, but unfortunately, they are expensive. The one name that comes to mind is Smythson - but you are talking about 5 to 6 times the price of a Moleskin. Also try Barbara Wiggins - nice but not cheap. At the end of the day, for the quality of the binding alone, you are not going to get any better value than a Moleskin (as long as you don't use a foutnain pen!) I must look at the sketchbook alternative - that might be the answer. But, for the moment, its pencils for me!

 

[caila77]

moleskine correct use!

moleskine correct use!

I'm afraid but I don't think that moleskines are so good for writing, I usually prefer to use them to carry my canon P (exactly the same dimensions) or a pair of lenses (50 f1,6; 35 f2)!

 

[rogue_designer]

Spluff - I generally agree with you about fountain pens and moleskines - but I have found that at least with the Pelikan blue ink, and a medium nib - my moleskine is better than most notebooks I've found (certainly in that price range)

 

[Freakscene]

I agree that the sketchbook Moleskines are better with ink than their other books. With technical pens even the Cahiers work okay with carbon ink although there is some bleed. The Smythson and Barbara Wiggins books are among the absolute best, but between work, travel, diary and home, I fill 4-6 notebooks a year and if I used these best ones, the cost would buy me my yearly film quota or another lens per year. I also think that despite the nicer paper, the Moleskines are better bound.

The blank travel books and/or the city guides are perfect for independent travel. Just blank pages and a map.

Marty

 

[ITD]

I use a fountain pen with my Moleskines. The ink does pool a little, but I have a page-sized sheet of blotting paper which is used as a bookmark - blots the page perfectly when I close the book.

Choice of ink does make a difference though - I use Noodler's Bullet Proof Black

 

[Lance]

That is one overpriced notebook. My cheap Chinabook bought for a buck is better made than these Moleskines. I guess the price comes from the history. Locally it costs about 13 Euros. Only Leica people would pay more for less.
I want one though...

 

[kully]

Buy it online Lance, 13 Euros is stupidly expensive.