pixelatedscraps
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I resisted buying a Plaubel Makina 67 back in March. Now, almost a year later, I find myself wanting one again. Dammit.
What have you resisted buying in 2010?
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Chris101
summicronia
Being broke, I have resisted almost everything lately. Well, except a $3 bargain filter last weekend. - Like I needed one more filter!
Mablo
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Lately I've resisted of buying a Graflex Super Speed. It's a great camera but think I wouldn't use it after a while. Still, I'd like to try 4x5 one day.
Right now I'm thinking of giving Leica one last chance. Just /maybe/ the M6 TTL .85 would be more suitable for me than the previous M-bodies I've used and then sold.
Right now I'm thinking of giving Leica one last chance. Just /maybe/ the M6 TTL .85 would be more suitable for me than the previous M-bodies I've used and then sold.
Juan Valdenebro
Truth is beauty
Hexar AF.
I just said no way! a few years ago when I heard they were hard to be serviced, had a fixed lens, and especially when I found its top speed was 1/250...
I kept feeling like that until 2010... After using during 2010 my XA (similar top shutter speed) more than the rest of my faster shutter, "better" cameras for the street shots I really care for, getting great results on and out of direct sun, I started to consider maybe the Hexar AF could be used too, at least as a "bag bottom" camera just for real low light cases where focusing with manual lenses becomes hard or impossible...
Then some months ago, after reading a few threads here, and I remember maybe ampguy and/or other experienced forum members talking about it as "the best 35mm camera ever", I was very surprised... So I started to read about it every day... When I got to Richard Caruana's great article, and I read how peculiarly the Hexar AF behaves in P mode, finally I understood why its top speed doesn't mater at all, and I fell in love with its design... I haven't stopped thinking about it since... A clever street camera! And if I ever want to shoot wide open with good light, it's as easy as using slow film and carrying my 3 and 6 stop ND filters...
But now it's 2011, and I couldn't resist even one more month: tomorrow I'll receive here at home my Hexar AF at last... I can't wait!
Cheers,
Juan
I just said no way! a few years ago when I heard they were hard to be serviced, had a fixed lens, and especially when I found its top speed was 1/250...
I kept feeling like that until 2010... After using during 2010 my XA (similar top shutter speed) more than the rest of my faster shutter, "better" cameras for the street shots I really care for, getting great results on and out of direct sun, I started to consider maybe the Hexar AF could be used too, at least as a "bag bottom" camera just for real low light cases where focusing with manual lenses becomes hard or impossible...
Then some months ago, after reading a few threads here, and I remember maybe ampguy and/or other experienced forum members talking about it as "the best 35mm camera ever", I was very surprised... So I started to read about it every day... When I got to Richard Caruana's great article, and I read how peculiarly the Hexar AF behaves in P mode, finally I understood why its top speed doesn't mater at all, and I fell in love with its design... I haven't stopped thinking about it since... A clever street camera! And if I ever want to shoot wide open with good light, it's as easy as using slow film and carrying my 3 and 6 stop ND filters...
But now it's 2011, and I couldn't resist even one more month: tomorrow I'll receive here at home my Hexar AF at last... I can't wait!
Cheers,
Juan
kossi008
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Sony Nex.
I was really tempted, so I walked down to the local superstore to handle one, and we just didn't click! I guess I am a viewfinder guy.
I was really tempted, so I walked down to the local superstore to handle one, and we just didn't click! I guess I am a viewfinder guy.
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