I bought a couple of Skip's boxes and I've never owned anything Leica,
although I considered a Tiltall tripod once and those elegant little
table-top tripods more than once. Carbon fiber trumped the Tiltall and a
sturdy plastic folding tripod beat out the table-top.
It's nice to have a few OM boxes up on top of the bookcases. Let's see,
I can see boxes for OM-1 black body, Auto Bellows, 35-105/3.5-4.5,
50/1.8 (miJ) along with 2 Tokina AT-X and 1 Tamron SP zooms. I think the
new Oly boxes will displace the non-Oly boxes. I figure I'll likely get
the small cost back if I ever sell the 2x-A or 300/4.5, 'cause really
nice stuff seems to get more in an auction with a box.
Fascinated as I have been for much of my life with finely crafted
mechanical things, I have generally avoided expensive ones that don't do
anything I really want. I've known since my Dad replaced his Practiflex
with a Topcon Super D with a pentaprism that the SLR was what I liked.
My first serious camera was a Nik*n Ftn (happily replaced shortly after
the OM-1 appeared). I'm way too interested in long lenses, macro and
zooms for framing to be happy with a rangefinder. I tolerate the XA for
its other advantages, but can't see spending a whole lot of money for a
camera that would just irritate me every time I used it. Yes, I've used
rangefinders, but never a Leica. I have peered through a couple of them.
I've thought about a Stylus, Epic or zoom, but I know that framing
error, general and parallax, would just bug me. I have a Can*n ELPH 490Z
APS camera which is a very capable long zoom P&S camera, but I came to
dislike it because I never knew what would end up actually on the film.
Silly thing has a framing box that moves with focal distance - but is
inaccurate. Always over framing might work, but is contrary to the whole
point of the zoom, less practical with the smaller film image and just
really hard for me to do. In a way it's a shame APS didn't really make
it, although digital is a better solution. The film itself is much
better than you would think from the lousy prints that were so common.
I've made nice 8x10 prints from about half of a scanned APS neg.
Moose
ClassicVW@xxxxxxx wrote:
>I don't mean this in a negative way, especially since I took part in the
>sale.... but I'll bet a lot of the buyers are also Leica users?? Maybe
>they're
>conditioned to _expect_ to pay for "just boxes"...?!
>
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