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 11:23:36 2006
References: <45688E63.9070305@nathanfoto.com> <6D6AF196-5397-4EF3-88CB-42A64871344D@pandora.be>

In Amsterdam at least, I have a wide selection of 120 film. Even in 
Zaltbommel, the small town where I often stop on my way to work, the 
local camera shop has 120, although only the Kodak C41 B&W variety.

Nathan

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.
>
>
>
> 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
>>
>> --Nathan Wajsman
>> Almere, The Netherlands
>>
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>>
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>>
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-- 
Nathan Wajsman
Almere, The Netherlands

Opportunistic Image Acquisition

General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com and http://www.greatpix.eu
Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com

Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman
http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507
Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com

Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog


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