Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I love blanket statements such as this...>>Professional photographers, usually use multiple equipment > formats, 35mm, > >>MF, and LF. Yes, and some only use 35, some only use MF, and some only use 20x24 Polaroids...what's the point? > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Jim Brick > Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 12:18 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: [Leica] Hey I wonder what Medium or Large Format Leica > Photographers prefer > > > At 11:22 AM 6/1/00 -0400, M.E.Berube - GoodPhotos wrote: > > > >>At 12:01 AM 6/1/00 -0700, Jim Brick wrote: > >>Professional photographers, usually use multiple equipment > formats, 35mm, > >>MF, and LF. > > > >Which brought to my mind..."Hey I wonder what other Medium or > Large Format > >Leica Photographers prefer." > > I use a Hasselblad 203FE with 40CFE, 60CF, 100CFi, and 180 CFi lenses. My > daughter has a Hasselblad 503CW with 50CFi, 80CFE, and 150CFi lenses. We > mix and match when necessary. I also have a FlexBody. > > Next up, I have a Linhof Technikardan 45S with 75/4.5 Grandagon, 120/5.6 > Super-Symmar HM, 180/5.6 Super-Symmar MC, 270/360/500/720 Nikkor T*ED > lenses. Interesting... "all" of these LF lenses have a 67mm filter thread. > > To stay on topic, I have a Leica R7 with 21, 35/2, 35PC, 50/2, 60, 90/2.8, > 180/2.8, and 350 lenses and 2x APO. And I have two M6's, one black, one > chrome, with 24 ASPH, 35/1.4 ASPH, 50/1.4, and 75 lenses. > > For serious "awesome grandeur" style landscape photography, I use the > Linhof 95% and the Hasselblad 5%. For urban and other 'scapes, I use the > Hasselblad 100% of the time. For have with me at all times, photograph > anything and everything, hand held photography, I use the M6's. For book > illustrations, telephoto, and other tripod based 35mm work, I use the R7. > The R7 is the least used camera I have. Hasselblad and Linhof the > most used. > > Jim > >