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thanks for another excellent picture, ruddy. i guess this is the end of the thread.

ok, here we go again... dean: very funny, but i've already read all of your boring debates with littman on about a thousand threads.

 

thanks EVERYBODY for the input. carlos: excellent! any other littman shooters have examples to show? ruddy: another pic, please. or two. or three. come on. i have visited your site but mostly i came across rollei portraits. or so i thought.

DG: well, but i love sheet film. alpa looks good, and i have a book by magnum photographer raymond depardon ("errance") where you can see its incredible quality. but it's not what i'm after. perhaps when i am filthy rich and decide to change my mamiya 7...

carlos: thanks for taking the time. this was the kind of useful comment i was looking for when i started this thread. thanks again. your pic reminds me of martin parr (his new brighton series). cheers!

thanx to all littman owners for your contributions so far and for your encouragement (it's a serious plunge, deciding to spend in the vicinity of four grand). is there anyone who has actually used the camera with strobes?

any other owners of the littman camera out there to address my very specific questions? and, if possible, to avoid meaningless confrontations with non-owners?

thanks, radcliffe. and i LOVED the single mom picture! but switching to technical mode: that's exactly the kind of sharpness and definition i'm after. was this a 150mm lens camera?

having sifted through previous posts on the subject, i really hesitated whether

to post this question. but i will do it anyway.

 

money notwithstanding (i really think that prices are ok, if this thing works),

do you people at photonet -knowledgeable owners please- think it is worth

buying? i'm a leica user, but i love the detail of a 4x5 neg. i'm also a field

4x5 camera user, but i love the speed allowed by a rangefinder. the littman

would combine both. and for the kind of work i intend to do with it -candid

portraiture without any help from assistants-, in theory it would be the perfect

camera to buy.

 

specifically: i have seen some concerns expressed over the flash synchro, and

also over the depth of field. i would really like to hear if any owner has had

any problems with these. the flash synchro, and the hot shoe would be really

important features.

 

[my initial hesitations (about posting this question) were due to the tiring

debates i have come across between william littman himself and some of his

detractors, on every single post where a littman camera has been discussed. i am

interested in littman's cameras and i'm interested in the opinion of real

owners. and i am not interested in littman's comments (who will obviously defend

his product), or the comments of people who just love to poke fun at littman.

these two latter categories of photonet users (littman himself, and littman

haters) please refrain.]