Would You sell M and stay with a T3?

[Bruno Gracia]

I mainly do street photography and some portraiture work.

Not professional so digital doesn't seems to fix well with me at this right moment (was thinking x2-dp3m combo).

I also just receive a 503CW with 80CF.

sell this and save a lot of money:



tres mosqueteros y dartagnan por Bruno Gracia, en Flickr


For this?



Contax T3 on SALE por Bruno Gracia, en Flickr

 

[k__43]

No!

I'd sell the MP and get something cheap like a M2 or M4-P.
Still multiple times more fun that shooting with a point n shoot. Although the T3 is probably the best point n shoot camera.
If you still need money sell all lenses except your favorite.

 

[kbg32]

Sell the Leica and you might regret it. I'd get rid of the Hasselblad. But again, this really depends on YOUR style of shooting.

 

[Bruno Gracia]

I just feel more comfortable and close to people with Leica.

Actually I love the M2, my favorite M camera are these: MP, M2, but for me the Viewfinder makes a huge difference and the smoother that could be the MP.

Anyway, I know is much better to know the light and use Sunny 16 rule, but... London with all the street and all the light changes.. is difficult.

I want to try the hassy and if I'm happy with the portraiture results maybe I will sell the 50 elmar, if not, I will stuck with it.

 

[jsrockit]

If I was using film for most of my photography, I'd have to have a MP. Keep it.

 

[whitecat]

The T3 is the best compact I have ever owned and I have had many. I got rid of the Leica but got a Zeiss 35.

 

[Frank Petronio]

Get rid of all that 35mm gear, it's a dead end. It's nice to fondle old Leicas and Contaxes but face it, the picture quality doesn't begin to compare with the results from an inexpensive medium format or a modern digital camera. Why tie thousands of dollars up in a mediocre format?

 

[k__43]

Get rid of all that 35mm gear, it's a dead end. It's nice to fondle old Leicas and Contaxes but face it, the picture quality doesn't begin to compare with the results from an inexpensive medium format or a modern digital camera. Why tie thousands of dollars up in a mediocre format?

boooooooooh you TROLL!

 

[jsrockit]

k 43, that's not trolling... it's called an opinion. I'd agree with most of it too.

 

[Lauffray]

Get rid of all that 35mm gear, it's a dead end. It's nice to fondle old Leicas and Contaxes but face it, the picture quality doesn't begin to compare with the results from an inexpensive medium format or a modern digital camera. Why tie thousands of dollars up in a mediocre format?

while I agree 35mm is a dead end and doesn't compare to MF, I wouldn't go as far as saying it's mediocre really, if you have some good lenses and develop properly

 

[Lauffray]

Anyway, to answer the OP, I know at least 3-4 people who've stopped using their Leicas entirely and shoot only Contax P&S now, if it makes you happy and feel the MP is weighing you down, by all means, ditch it !

My personal experience, after having once sold a Leica, I regret it. I also had a Ricoh P&S and shot with that for a while when my Leica was in repair, I ended up selling the Ricoh and keeping the Leica, I didn't find the P&S as satisfying as the RF.

But again, that's my personal experience

 

[Bruno Gracia]

Thank You all.

Maybe is more joy of use and look than quality?

For street work, Do We need really such a quality?

Portrait, You're completely right.

At the end is the same question, Do I need expensive gear if I can do the same with an "inexpensive" point and shoot? It's better digital than analog for this kind of job?

 

[Pete B]

k 43, that's not trolling... it's called an opinion. I'd agree with most of it too.

I think it was a little tongue in cheek leg-pulling.

The thing that keeps me coming back to my Leicas is the frustration I seem to get using the other options. Keep the MP and just enjoy it. Stick a 28 on the Mp and run it along side the Contax.
Pete

 

[Lauffray]

Thank You all.

Maybe is more joy of use and look than quality?

For street work, Do We need really such a quality?

Portrait, You're completely right.

At the end is the same question, Do I need expensive gear if I can do the same with an "inexpensive" point and shoot? It's better digital than analog for this kind of job?

If you do portraits you would probably like the MF, no ?

As for better, depends what you do with your results, some people shoot a lot and never develop, some people just post small scans to the web, other people like to print etc
Different goals different answers

 

[Bruno Gracia]

jajaja thanks all guys.

Mmmm.. so M is better suited for street and 28-35mm and Hassy for Portrait with 150mm??

The kind of portrait I like to do is not candid, just ask permission or posed.

 

[Frank Petronio]

Well if you shoot portraits with a Hasselblad and a 150 and street with a Leica M and 28mm then you're just like thousands of other photographers... it's all very traditional.

Why do that? Are you somehow finding your own voice and coming up with new pictures that are original, creative, different working within these traditional restraints? Or isn't that important?

Is it plenty satisfying to ape a Winograd shot on the street or to recreate an Irving Penn portrait in the studio?

You're not doing this for assignments or being art directed so why be so constricted? As nice as this high quality equipment is, I suspect a large part of why we gravitate towards certain cameras is out of peer pressure on forums like this one... where gear (and cameras bags) are the focus. Obviously you need a camera of some sort to do photography but if you're so uncertain of your direction that you would readily give up one kind for something entirely different (going from a Leica M to an auto point and shoot) then maybe you need to back up and decide what to shoot before making expensive choices on gear?

 

[Ansel]

I think you should settle down and just use what you own for a year or so... you keep chopping kit in and out every other month....

I own and use Hasselblad: 500CM+ 80CFE + 60CB + SWC/M + Leica: M6 + Summicron 35 ASPH and will add 50 + 28 later.... If I could spare some cash for a T3 I would get one also.

If you have any sort of aesthetic appreciation for poetry and beauty then film is never a dead end, but rather an infinite universe of possibilities.

 

[philipus]

then you're just like thousands of other photographers... it's all very traditional.

Why do that?

On that note, why shoot digital and be like millions of others. If the point is to stand out and be different, I mean.

What's more important (in my opinion and to me) is to like the gear one uses.

Btw, I, for one, like the film images on your site, Frank 🙂

 

[jsrockit]

Obviously you need a camera of some sort to do photography but if you're so uncertain of your direction that you would readily give up one kind for something entirely different (going from a Leica M to a auto point and shoot) then maybe you need to back up and decide what to shoot before making expensive choices on gear?

But it wasn't that long ago that we saw you going through various different cameras too... IIRC, Panasonic G, Nikon something or other, Leica M with 35mm Color Skopar, etc.

In this day and age, with so many options, you have to try a few before you can figure out what works for what you want to do.

 

[L Collins]

Get rid of all that 35mm gear, it's a dead end. It's nice to fondle old Leicas and Contaxes but face it, the picture quality doesn't begin to compare with the results from an inexpensive medium format or a modern digital camera. Why tie thousands of dollars up in a mediocre format?

Depends how you define "picture quality" i guess. If you like to shoot tack sharp pictures of sunsets and puppies, you definitely have a point.