amateriat
We're all light!
So...I was mostly minding my beeswax today, assisting someone I know on a tech job at an office across the river (i.e. New Jersey). We were taking a break on account of a technical problem, and I was idly taking digital snaps of an interesting scene outside the boardroom window, when my tech partner casually reaches into his shoulder bag and lays this on me:
Now, I was totally unprepared for this. I know he's into photography, and we'd discussed RFs in the past (he's largely worked with Pentax SLRs), but he really dropped the funk bomb on me today with this.
The killer part is that (1) among the non-motorized M-camera options I've been musing over the last year-and-change, the ZI is the one camera I haven't handled up till now, and (2) save for my interest in Konica's 17-35 M-Hex "dualie", this is EXACTLY the ZI setup I'd want: black, with 35/2 Biogon.
After doing my best/worst Mel Blanc-in-character imitation ("Don't DO that!!!") I calmed down and played with the thing. I like the feel of the thing: perhaps a smidgeon shy of Leica-brick-scheisshaus in feel, but crazy-solid enough for me. Handling is wonderful. I can see that moving back and forth between my Hexars and this would be largely painless, as I had imagined beforehand. The VF is killer. And, that shutter...yeah, a bit louder than an M7, but far from being a deal-breaker; it's stealthy enough, and I'm pretty hard-nosed about this issue.
What? GAS? You talkin' to me?
So...yeah, I think this is Camera Number Three. I really think this is the Hexar RF's long, lost soul brother.
- Barrett
Now, I was totally unprepared for this. I know he's into photography, and we'd discussed RFs in the past (he's largely worked with Pentax SLRs), but he really dropped the funk bomb on me today with this.
The killer part is that (1) among the non-motorized M-camera options I've been musing over the last year-and-change, the ZI is the one camera I haven't handled up till now, and (2) save for my interest in Konica's 17-35 M-Hex "dualie", this is EXACTLY the ZI setup I'd want: black, with 35/2 Biogon.
After doing my best/worst Mel Blanc-in-character imitation ("Don't DO that!!!") I calmed down and played with the thing. I like the feel of the thing: perhaps a smidgeon shy of Leica-brick-scheisshaus in feel, but crazy-solid enough for me. Handling is wonderful. I can see that moving back and forth between my Hexars and this would be largely painless, as I had imagined beforehand. The VF is killer. And, that shutter...yeah, a bit louder than an M7, but far from being a deal-breaker; it's stealthy enough, and I'm pretty hard-nosed about this issue.
What? GAS? You talkin' to me?
So...yeah, I think this is Camera Number Three. I really think this is the Hexar RF's long, lost soul brother.
- Barrett
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