The timeworn poll: which 1 body + 1 lens?

[tim_robinson]

Holga with plastic fantastic 60mm . The overall look of the

photo's i have taken with the Holga are very similar to those i

have taken with my 50mm noct, same fall-off and edge

aberations & at $16 US you can't beat it.

[victor_randin]

re: Holga

 

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Tim, is it a single malt?

[victor_randin]

re: Holga

 

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Tim, is it a single malt:?)

[MTC Photography]

Minox CLX

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[joe_buechler]

If I had to do it over again, I'd do the same thing: Classic M6,

current 50mm Summicron.

 

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Joe

[damond_lam]

My first choice is M6 + 50mm Noctilux. With today's fine-grained fast

films, the combination provides huge flexibility with or without the

sun, with or without tripod. Noctilux is expenisve, but is only 15%

more expensive than the 35mm Summilux, which is my second choice. D.

[david enzel]

M6 TTL .85 with the current 50 summicron. I love the 50 mm focal

length and the 50 summicron can't be beat.

[peter_hughes1]

M3 w/50mm f/2 Summitar.

 

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I've got MF, I've got digital, I've got the lastest whiz-bang 35mm

SLR. The Leica/Summitar gives me something completely different.

 

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http://www.ravenvision.com/peterhughes.htm

[marco_grande]

M3 (>1.0 million) modified to focus to 0.7m (does anyone know who

does this, and at what cost)and 11817 Summicron.

[emile_de_leon9]

M6 classic and Noctilux....no doubt out about it. 2nd choice...M6

and DR summicron. Or maybe subtitute the M6 for an M3.....Hmmmmm

[arie2]

M6 TTL, .85 + 50 Summicron.

[leicaville]

M6 Black classic .72 and Konica M-Hexanon 50mm

[tom_holum]

If I were restricted to a compact camera, it would certainly be an M3 SS with the Dual Range Summicron. When looking through the viewfinder with the right eye, and keeping the left eye open, the 50mm frameline appears to be simply floating in open space, and you almost forget that you have a camera to your eye.

But for quality of the final print--and pleasure in handling a superlatively-engineered machine--I would keep my Rolleiflex 2.8F (Planar).

It's strange that the M3 with DR Summicron was my first professional-grade camera, purchased over thirty years ago, and after spending many thousands of dollars on cameras and lenses since that time (including a half dozen leica bodies and a dozen additional leica lenses), nothing but the Rolleiflex equals that first camera and lens for sheer instinctual photography.

Tom Holum

[allan_yates]

MP body with 0.72 finder and 50mm f/1.4 Summilux - both in black.