reality check

Trius said:
Joe: If you do manage a trip to NYC, I will make every effort to drive down from Eastman-ville. George will have to give me room and board, but that's just his punishment for being a Yankees fan. 😀

Let's Go Oilers!

Trius,

At $750/night (non-Yankee fans rate) you are certainly welcome. 😀

Truth be told, it'd be great to get some kind of RFF'er NYC-field trip going like some of you guys did last year.

Oh, Rangers are gone - but don't we still have the Devils in the chase? 😉
 
Don't know what to tell you, really, joe. I find myself using the CL w/ the 50/2 the most, followed by occasional use of the CL w/ 90/4 & the 7 & 50/1.8. I've already sold the only 35 I had (J-12) as the 40 is wide enough for most uses for me. I expect I'll eventually get a 28/3.5 of some stripe as my superwide - well, it is to my eyes anyway 🙂

I find myself just wanting to go and shoot and not worry about the equipment hassle, even though I'm sure I will anyway. Still, I've got a small bag ready to go each day - the CL w/ 50/2 mounted and the 40/2, 50/2 Jupiter 8, 90/4 lenses, my Sekonic meter and more than a dozen rolls of film. Very little that I want to do that I can't do with this kit and the two foot zoom though when I do finally get a 28 & finder, the Jupiter will stay home. For that matter I'm seriously thinking about not keeping the 40/2 once a 28 is in hand. 28/50/90... 😉

For more special/specialized shooting I have the 7, the Speed, the Contessa and probably an old Canon SLR body before long. But it's the little bag with the little camera that goes out the door with me every day. Having it and it's handfull of lenses really has simplified my shooting.

I guess I feel you need to consider which camera is best for each purpose and then worry about the lens selection for them. If I had your selection, the daily user would probably be the ZI and that Planar would be my next purchase. All of them are very nice cameras - but it's _really_ nice to have a new camera where everything just works and if it doesn't you have a warrenty on it 😀

In the end, I think I find it more important to have fun with the shooting. Which camera do you enjoy shooting the most? For me, by a whisker, it's turning out to be the CL (though if I were a Brian Sweeney and could retrofit an M mount on the 7 there'd be no contest at all 🙂 ) Which is it for you?

Hope my blather is of some use,

William
 
Which camera do you enjoy shooting the most?

i'm spoiled by choice!

i like the sound and feel in my hand of the m3 the best.

the ease and size of the cl the best.

the heft of the p the best.

but for overall experience i like the zi the best.

now you got me thinking...

joe
 
It helps if you simply dedicate a certain film (type + asa setting) to each of your many cameras.

When you go out for the day you simply decide which FILM you want to shoot and then take the camera the film belongs to.

This methodology saves you from having to make the same hardware decision every day. It forces you rather to make a software decision, which I feel is a better approach for photogs who have many cameras and like to shoot in all types of light conditions.
 
copake_ham said:
Trius,

At $750/night (non-Yankee fans rate) you are certainly welcome. 😀

Truth be told, it'd be great to get some kind of RFF'er NYC-field trip going like some of you guys did last year.

Oh, Rangers are gone - but don't we still have the Devils in the chase? 😉
George: Do you accept Visa?

Devils will be gone soon, sorry.

Let's Go Blue Jays!
 
Pherdinand said:
joe - how about giving up all this theopretical mumbo jumbo about the need for special properties of all that glass, keeping 3 lenses of 3 different focal lengths and focusing on shooting great photos.
Just an idea.

Imagine that.
 
Joe -- I had a bit of this crisis awhile back, but I just sort of gave up. I realized that I have a lot of cameras and a lot of lenses, pretty much all of which I still like a great deal. Some get used more than others, but as long as I can keep them without it being a financial problem, I am not going to sell them unless I am not using them at all and don't really care for them. Actually, I kind of look at it like clothes -- certain shirts or pants get used all the time, but that doesn't mean I should throw away the dress pants or the winter jacket. And for better or for worse, you are going to be judged on your photos, not your equipment. That knife cuts both ways -- if you take good photos and have tons of equipment, no one will care, but at the same time no one is going to be impressed if you use one camera and one lens and take crappy photos with it. So my basic philosophy is to chill out. If you really like something and can swing it, buy it, but don't feel the need to accumulate gear just for the sake of the off chance that you need a camera with an f/1.0 lens for underwater portrait photography.
 
StuartR said:
If you really like something and can swing it, buy it, but don't feel the need to accumulate gear just for the sake of the off chance that you need a camera with an f/1.0 lens for underwater portrait photography.

Hilarious. I wonder what the refractive index of water will do to the depth of field (will it do anything, at all?)

Clarence
 
so here's the central dilemma...

sympathise with Joe and others about the mental anguish those of us with too many cameras experience when trying work out what to take on the odd occaision that we actually tear ourselves away from the computer and go out....("oh the sun ..I'm melting" 😉 )

or...

rush over to the classifieds to check out those Canons.... 😀

Arrggh! Too late - darn southern hemisphere sleep patterns :bang:
 
Kevin said:
It helps if you simply dedicate a certain film (type + asa setting) to each of your many cameras.

When you go out for the day you simply decide which FILM you want to shoot and then take the camera the film belongs to.

That's right. Plan the image don't choose accrding to what you fancy fondling.

I never take an extra lens because when I'm changing lenses I'm missing images. If today is a 'wide day' in a place with narrow alleys I'll take a wide lens, why bother with a long lens in that situation?
 
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