your dream combo?

[mooge]

kameraden!
what, is or was your "dream combo" of one camera and one lens- y'know, the one you always drooled over but could never afford? (or, is it what you have right now?)

for me- I'd say it would be somewhere along the lines of a black M4 and a Noct- because I'd never be able to afford either! haha!hahaha! (okay, because I like to hide in the dark and would like a solid RF...)

but realistically, I need to get out and shoot more- I'm like trapped by the snow or something. and I'm content with the stuff I've got at the moment, and if I'm not, I don't have the cash to buy anyways...

cheers,
Dragunov

 

[Doug]

M2 and 35 Summicron, simply classic. And relatively affordable too.

 

[Bassism]

I think that an M7 with a 0.95 Noct could be a lot of fun to play with.

I can feel you about the snow though... I think I'm going to take a trip up to Winterlude and check out the ice sculptures and stuff today though, since it's warm and everything.

 

[rover]

I would be willing to sell some nice stuff if I had a black MP and 35/2 Biogon.

 

[ElectroWNED]

any M with a meter and something wider than 35. 🙂

 

[LeicaTom]

Well, I have the camera already.........my 1943 Leica IIIC K Grey "Civilian" issue with matching numbers Summitar.



I just want a motor for it, like this one..........a 1943 Leica MOOLY C K

On my camera the bottom plate isn`t the prettiest, so a motor in the same condition as the one was above would be the ticket for beautifaction!
(that camera in the photo was also a 43' issue with original Elmar, motor and rare motor everyready "flat nose" case it sold late last year for $5,800 - which I found to be very cheap, but that camera was REPAINTED so that was mainly why the price stayed so low?)

Normally the motors are non-existent, with some Chrome MOOLY C`s turning up sometimes (around $3,000 to $4,000) and the less rarer Black post-war MOOLY C`s (around $2,500 to $3,000) - for sale, here and abroad, but the "wartime" MOOLY C K GREY PAINT is a real rarity, with I think production at something like 28 or 32 examples. (I have to ask Jim Lager next time I talk to him) and pricing such an item? Hmm very difficult while they rarely come up for sale, but I did once see one sell in the early 1990`s in Germany for about $7,000.....

Last one I saw offered was a no sale at auction for $9,000!

Well, maybe some day when I`m old and famous I could afford to find one, but I still would`nt pay over $6,000 for it LOL!!!!!! it being for me the MOST EXPENSIVE Leica paperweight ever made and the most expensive "vanity" item I`d ever want to buy 😀

Tom

PS: Hahahah I bet the Black Leather MOOLY C case (or Grey paint over Black Leather) - is rarer than the motor itself, I`ve never seen a Black Leather MOOLY C case, has anyone out there?

 

[ruilebreiro]

a Leica M7 w/ summilux 35 would make me happy 🙂
... also M6

 

[tbm]

Upon helping my mother give birth to five children, my father unexplainably lost his desire to capture images with any Leica lens other than the 35mm Summicron. Consequently, regardless of whether he captured images with black and white and color print film as well as color slide film with that lens, everybody in my family, including my four siblings as well as our mother, got so tired of seeing the world via that lens' 63 degree angle of view. Yes, it got so tedious being forced to experience everything in that fashion! A few years before he died, I showed him what I was able to capture with 35mm, 80mm, 100mm, 180mm, and 350mm Leica lenses and he immediately concurred that he had foolishly limited his choices!

 

[fbf]

m2+SA21/3.4 and a .85 MP/rapidwinder with 50 noctilux.

 

[Andrew Sowerby]

Probably a LHSA M6TTL and matching black paint 50mm Summilux.

 

[pesphoto]

Upon helping my mother give birth to five children, my father unexplainably lost his desire to capture images with any Leica lens other than the 35mm Summicron. Consequently, regardless of whether he captured images with black and white and color print film as well as color slide film with that lens, everybody in my family, including my four siblings as well as our mother, got so tired of seeing the world via that lens' 63 degree angle of view. Yes, it got so tedious being forced to experience everything in that fashion! A few years before he died, I showed him what I was able to capture with 35mm, 80mm, 100mm, 180mm, and 350mm Leica lenses and he immediately concurred that he had foolishly limited his choices!

youre not serious right?

 

[35mmdelux]

Let me think about this...

 

[Chris101]

I had never considered a Leica before one practically fell into my lap. I shoot with a M4-P and 35mm Ultron, and it is almost perfect.

But before that, and still, my dream camera is a Hasselblad SWC. Unfortunately it's price keeps increasing at a slightly faster rate than my pay has gone up over the last 40 years.

Some day though.

 

[mh2000]

Leica IIIg + Summilux 50

 

[maddoc]

Dream combo within the Leica M system ? I have a few lenses that I like a lot but use all of them in a different way and M bodies are pretty easily interchangeable so ... Rolleiflex 2.8GX 😀

 

[johnwnyc]

MP + 28 Elmarit ASPH + Voigtlander metal brightline finder

 

[ChrisN]

In rangefinders? I'm lucky.

 

[Chris101]

... Rolleiflex 2.8GX 😀

Oh yeah! I had a Rollei with a f/3.5 Tessar, and LOVED it! I'd shoot one of those again, no problem.

 

[Spyderman]

MP, 28/2, 40/1.4 ,90/2.8

But my current kit has the same focal lengths and handles just the same... so I sort of already own my dream combo 🙂

 

[Morca007]

Too many cameras to lust after to choose just one. ;-)