Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/25

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Subject: [Leica] I may buy another film camera...
From: jviiret at gmail.com (Justin Viiret)
Date: Sat Nov 25 15:21:40 2006
References: <45688E63.9070305@nathanfoto.com> <6D6AF196-5397-4EF3-88CB-42A64871344D@pandora.be>

Hi there,

On 26/11/2006, at 6:02 AM, Philippe Orlent wrote:

> That's why I bought a Fuji GS645 (after a remark about it from  
> Sonny) from KEH last week. They rated it 8+, so in fact it's  
> virtually new.
> It gets pretty hard to find 120 film though. Kodak Portra 160VC is  
> the only thing I found closeby. I was hoping to find Fuji Reala  
> 100, but might have been too much to ask.

I've just bought one of these, too (for while my M3's overseas, being  
repaired), and I'm enjoying it immensely -- I love shooting in  
portrait orientation "by default", the negs look great (no scanner  
for 120 yet, but I'm thinking about it!) and it's an easy camera to  
like. I've fumbled a roll while unloading it once, but I'm sure I'll  
get used to it.

Most of the pro labs left in Sydney still sell 120, though I haven't  
been able to find Neopan 400 over the counter yet. Perhaps ebay's the  
way to go -- at least in Australia, I can get rollfilm cheaper than  
store prices from a couple of enterprising local sellers...

jv

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