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    Use of rolleiflex TLR

    in Medium Format

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    I mentioned the classic greats Ernst Haas and Werner Bischof in a previous response as great examples of professional use of TLR. Shame on me for not mentioning Arthur Grace, a Washington DC photojournalist. He has published two books in the last 8 years using Rollei TLR's, COMEDIANS, a superb behind the scenes look at several artists including Richard Pryor and Whoopie Goldberg, and CHOOSE ME, which covers the '92 Presidential election.

    Leica LTM best combination?

    in Leica and Rangefinders

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    I don't have any empirical reasons why I like the IIIg so much, but I

    have given up using my M3 and sold my M6, and just got a second IIIg

    body. I have the 28/5.6 and the 50/2.8. June the 18 I was up in

    Ketchikan using the 2.8 to document a trip to a road construction

    site. Very rewarding photo opportunity and very satisfying slides,

    even in a driving rain. The diminuitive size of the IIIg is

    important to me, and those two lenses make the camera even MORE

    unobtrusive. I have a little gossen scout light meter that works

    great with the Kodachrome 200 I always shoot, so instead of point and

    shoot quality, I can bring real photos home. I have some old

    Leicaflexes which are fantastic, but when you put one on you are

    TOTALLY in the picture taking business. Even with the M and any lens

    but a 35/2 and a hood, you have this projection emanating from your

    chest. Probably not as big a deal as I'm making out, but with the LTM

    you get a for real camera with a good shutter and a for real lens

    with a good aperture and focus mechanism in a very small package.

    Quite easy to make that argument for an M with the collapsible lens,

    or the Voights, so a lot of my feeling is bound to be just personal

    taste. Be that as it may, my own personal whiz wheel points straight

    at that IIIg and my slides, for the moment anyway, are bearing that

    out. I used to feel the same about my IIIf's: great fun and great

    results, since I'm not in the test pattern shooting business and KC

    200 is sorta grainy anyway, but That viewfinder on the g is SO

    great. Well, blah, blah,blah, I know. I use these things a lot more

    than I talk, I promise, and both the f and the g model just beg to be

    used.

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