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

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Subject: [Leica] I may buy another film camera...
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Sat Nov 25 11:02:30 2006
References: <45688E63.9070305@nathanfoto.com>

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.



Op 25-nov-06, om 19:41 heeft Nathan Wajsman het volgende geschreven:

> ...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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