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

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Subject: [Leica] I may buy another film camera...
From: nathan at nathanfoto.com (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Sat Nov 25 10:41:47 2006

...something I thought to be very unlikely. But last week I played with 
Michiel's Bronica MF rangefinder at a meeting of a camera club we both 
belong to, and I fell in love with it. I have owned a MF rangefinder 
before, the Fuji "Texas Leica", but got tired of it eventually--too big, 
too plasticky, lens too slow (5.6) and not interchangeable. The Bronica 
RF is lovely--smaller than the Fuji, solid like a Leica M, a choice of 3 
lenses, and a viewfinder and rangefinder that is much better than I 
remember the Fuji to be. The lenses are not that fast--f4--but at least 
faster than the Fuji and the focal length of the most common lens is 
more usable too (equivalent to roughly 35mm). The thought of doing 
street photography with a rangefinder but getting a 6x4.5 negative is 
very appealing indeed.

Nathan

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