Nantucket, I'm curious how much you pay for your antique glass? Hundreds or thousands? I might decide to play with a film camera one day, especially for B&W street photography. I really like some of the results you've gotten.
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Nantucket, I'm curious how much you pay for your antique glass? Hundreds or thousands? I might decide to play with a film camera one day, especially for B&W street photography. I really like some of the results you've gotten.
First of all, the oldest lens I own, at least for my M cameras, is the 50mm Summilux (f1.4), which has 1989 serial #s. My other lenses are all current models: 35mm Summicron (f2) Asph., 50mm Summicron, and 90mm Apo(chromatic) Summicron Asph ("Asph" standing for aspherical lens elements). The 35 and 90 were each about $2000. The 50 1.4 was about $1000 and the 50 f2 was around $600 because it had cosmetic damage on the built-in lens hood. Otherwise it was optically perfect, which is what matters to me. Anyway, Leica M glass does not come cheap, but as you and others have noted, the results speak for themselves (in terms of optical quality).
I learned to do photography on a Leica IIIf and I now use a black-bodied Leica IIIa.
Heh, Its not that I have a problem with your opinion, its that I have a problem with your attitude. If you had said "I don't believe that there are any camera bags in the world that look stylish" or "SLR's are inherently unstylish and ugly" that would have been your opinion. Of course, it would have been an opinion that was very well covered in this thread already.
Don't know if it's stylish or not but there is this guy on Leicatime that does custom cases for cameras.
Also, notice that Olympus is being tucked into a jacket pocket.
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