nemetz
Newbie
Hi all,
First of all please excuse my English, unfortunately this is not my mother tongue.
I´ve been reading in this forum for quite a while and I drawed my conclusions because of that.
My age is 49 but I´m still as curious as a kid, luckily.
I got my first camera, a Minolta SRT 101 b at the age of forteen and I can still remember the emotions I had when I saw my first developed colour slides.In fact, I still remember the scene I took, a picture of a pristine river full of trouts, the river still exists , the trouts are gone and so is the slide.
Ever since then I´m infected with film, even though I didn´t take any pictures until the age of propably 35.I went into digital, 2 years ago I decided to try black and white again in the classical way(dit it in school a lot though)
and ever since I´ve become a follower of film photography.I posessed a few leica Ms and sold them , I had two Zeiss Ikon ZMs and sold them , I had a few DSLRS and sold them, altogether pretty crazy behaviour.
I even sold a Leica MP and some really great glass(a Nocti also), so I consider myself beeing an idiot.
But I always went back to slides and black and white, in fact I even took slides in Mozambik on a hunting trip(the Leica CM did serve me well).
Today I went to Vienna, sold a Canon 5d Mark II and bought a Leica 6(Numer 6 now,pun intended) the first film , a Trix is drying right now an it looks very good to me.
Why do I tell you this kind of boring story?For a simple reason:I think I have not been mature enough for a manual camera like the Leica M6, but I feel that now I am.I had to find this out the hard way that the big DSLRs are just not for me, even though the picture quality is amazing.
I somehow just grew into it, the days of aperture priority are gone(M7, Zeiss ZM) and it makes me extremely happy to judge the light, set everything as I think it to be and just fire.
That turns my mediocre way of picture taking on to a new level, judging the light by myself -even if it´s only two films so far(I´m quite astonished that I´m probably not that much of a nerd.....).I believe this to be VERY important for me, because there will be even less between me and my vision.It´s all up to me, now, no more automatism.
Can I get my point across?
I would like to thank you all and very much Mr Abrahamsson for all the good advise he gives, as a matter of fact he "made" me buying a second hand M6 instead of an MP, and that sure saved quite a bit of money.
Kind regards, Thomas
P.S.: My Leitz sure looks good, like out of the box. I´m very , very happy.
First of all please excuse my English, unfortunately this is not my mother tongue.
I´ve been reading in this forum for quite a while and I drawed my conclusions because of that.
My age is 49 but I´m still as curious as a kid, luckily.
I got my first camera, a Minolta SRT 101 b at the age of forteen and I can still remember the emotions I had when I saw my first developed colour slides.In fact, I still remember the scene I took, a picture of a pristine river full of trouts, the river still exists , the trouts are gone and so is the slide.
Ever since then I´m infected with film, even though I didn´t take any pictures until the age of propably 35.I went into digital, 2 years ago I decided to try black and white again in the classical way(dit it in school a lot though)
and ever since I´ve become a follower of film photography.I posessed a few leica Ms and sold them , I had two Zeiss Ikon ZMs and sold them , I had a few DSLRS and sold them, altogether pretty crazy behaviour.
I even sold a Leica MP and some really great glass(a Nocti also), so I consider myself beeing an idiot.
But I always went back to slides and black and white, in fact I even took slides in Mozambik on a hunting trip(the Leica CM did serve me well).
Today I went to Vienna, sold a Canon 5d Mark II and bought a Leica 6(Numer 6 now,pun intended) the first film , a Trix is drying right now an it looks very good to me.
Why do I tell you this kind of boring story?For a simple reason:I think I have not been mature enough for a manual camera like the Leica M6, but I feel that now I am.I had to find this out the hard way that the big DSLRs are just not for me, even though the picture quality is amazing.
I somehow just grew into it, the days of aperture priority are gone(M7, Zeiss ZM) and it makes me extremely happy to judge the light, set everything as I think it to be and just fire.
That turns my mediocre way of picture taking on to a new level, judging the light by myself -even if it´s only two films so far(I´m quite astonished that I´m probably not that much of a nerd.....).I believe this to be VERY important for me, because there will be even less between me and my vision.It´s all up to me, now, no more automatism.
Can I get my point across?
I would like to thank you all and very much Mr Abrahamsson for all the good advise he gives, as a matter of fact he "made" me buying a second hand M6 instead of an MP, and that sure saved quite a bit of money.
Kind regards, Thomas
P.S.: My Leitz sure looks good, like out of the box. I´m very , very happy.
