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>>But consider a CL<<
The CL [all were made by Minolta] is a excellent compact camera but they are now very long in the tooth, parts are likely to fail and, unlike the M cameras, are difficult to obtain. Leica will support the CM for many years but such support for the CL is questionable.
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The ZI, unlike the Rollei RF, is certainly not a rebadged Bessa. That is nonsense.
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Sell T, buy ZI. Now there is a viewfinder!
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Iam about to venture into the digital world and the GR/D looks interesting but I would prefer a 35mm equivalent lens rather than the 28. I think that the CV VF would work on this camera, don't like the thought of walking about with a camera held at arm's length. I like optical viewfinders.
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If you live in a small town, rob two banks.
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The Minilux/CM are cameras that inherit the concept of the Oscar Barnack Ideal Camera: small, easy-to-carry 35mm cameras fitted with a supurb optic.You can do an awful lot with that 40mm lens and both cameras take the longer lasting 123 power cell rather than the CR-2. So far as the E02 shutter failure is concerned, if a hundred bucks can fix it, that's not such a bad deal if, in fact, it ever happens. I've spent more than that just to have my M6's rangefinder adjusted. I'd even think about trading the M6 on a CM except that B&H seems to have more Ms than they can sell at the moment.
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There are a few of us who own but a single M body mated permanently to a single lens, hardly an entry to the world of the wealthy elite.
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Bill is right, the Barnacks are not user friendly. They are more a state of mind: beautiful to the point of being art objects, wonderful the way they feel in the hand and some of the greatest photographs ever made were done with the LTMs. But a Bessa R fitted with a 35mm lens will probably do the job better with less frustration....
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Well, no rangefinder means no rangefinder to get out of alignment so i guess that's an advantage, sort of. OTOH, my Rollei 35 has a built-in viewfinder, has Leica-like heft and cost $125
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Rob: Your elegant work with the ancient Leicas is a continuing delight.
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I don't know about Rolex value; in NYC last week and saw a couple of very friendly guys selling a bunch of perfectly good looking Rolexes for 15 bucks apiece.
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Never could understand thai stuff about seeing outside the viewfinder lines. I am interested only in what's inside the lines but, not to worry, with a 50mm lens mounted, the M6 will give you lots of field in the actual negative that was outside the viewfinder lines. Maybe that's why some say that using an M6 is an intuitive process.
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There is nothing really "special" about the Leica M. It is, in fact, a somewhat finiky camera, requiring more maintainence than other analog cameras and as many [if not more] truly execrable photographs have been with it than with any other kind of camera. Still, there is a certain je ne sais quoi about the Leica that even the minimally talented photographer can appreciate and value. That is why we spend so much time on forums like this one. Perhaps more of my most valued photographs have been made with lesser cameras than the M6 but I don't think I would want to spend much time talking or reading about, say, the Olympus Stylus Epic. When it comes to Leica, it is not really about the pictures.
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I tried the CV 35 finder on a IIIc, found the eye relief to be more than adaquate. Don't know how accurate framing is, though. The finder on the ZI has been getting great reviews.
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Seems pretty steep to me. I. too, have been looking around for an LTM shooter and it looks like there are plenty of IIIs arond for less than $200. Of course, there is the inevitable CLA, shutter curtain replacement, new beam splitter, etc, that could add as much as another $300. Find an old Elmar 50 and add a new CV 50 and you will have two very different ways of making images all for about .....$1000
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Rob: I enjoyed "Lustrous Light". William Henry Fox Talbot would be pleased.
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The early Bessa cameras had some scattered reliability issues but the more recent editions seem to compare very well with Leica for reliability.
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"This is not to disparage ZI"
LOL
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The Summarit on the Minilux is a superb lens but what about this frequently reported problem with the EO2 error message which seems to mean that the shutter must be replaced?
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The biggest tires that will fit the bike and then put less air into them than what is suggested. A dedicated touring bike can usually fit 700x35 tires. A old mountain bike tricked out for touring will take even bigger tires.
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"You may be surprised how affordable they can be."
Leica NJ has never surprised me that way.....
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So you're the guy who's cornered the market on Barnacks. By the way I stopped in at Photovillage and had a look at a couple of CV finders, a 50 and 35. Great eye relief and big,bold,bright framelines.Now I just need a good Barnack to go with them.
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If you think you know what the camera is worth then why not offer it at that price? The IIf is a nice LTM for those who don't need slow speeds. Too bad that's not a 50 Elmar red scale on the front....
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Yes, Drab. As J P Morgan once said, " If you have to ask the price, you can't afford one."
Undersized 50mm Framelines
in Leica and Rangefinders
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