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lIllII don't know what this is, but it may be one of the sexiest cameras I've seen on here.
Alpa 12 SWA, it's a medium format tech camera with Schneider lenses and built in vertical rise. They are hand holdable and not to big, landscape and architectural photogs love them. Built in Switzerland, can accept digi mf backs. Cost about 10k.
You know when you accidentally stumble on she-male porn, or any of that other weird shit we're all surprised there are actually people who are into it?
BaltoAlpa 12 SWA, it's a medium format tech camera with Schneider lenses and built in vertical rise. They are hand holdable and not to big, landscape and architectural photogs love them. Built in Switzerland, can accept digi mf backs. Cost about 10k.
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How come every practical MF camera costs an arm and a leg? Leica needs to make a MF rangefinder already.
How come every practical MF camera costs an arm and a leg? Leica needs to make a MF rangefinder already.
Because german glass and swiss engineering are actually good quality and are intended to be used by the highest level of professionals and there for cost real money. When the lens you put on it is a schneider APO and their "small travel" camera comes new with a 50mpx hasselblad back on it, I think you can tell the kind of product we are dealing with.
BaltoBecause german glass and swiss engineering are actually good quality and are intended to be used by the highest level of professionals and there for cost real money. When the lens you put on it is a schneider APO and their "small travel" camera comes new with a 50mpx hasselblad back on it, I think you can tell the kind of product we are dealing with.
Not even that. If Leica made a 6x6 with an M6 body, all would be forgiven.
Sure there's the Mamiya 6, but I can't use that to fight Nazi scum.
These are so stupid and basically impossible to use on a film m without a lot of wasted shots.
How about something more practical like the new MS optical 24mm that just got announced. Waiting for sample images from it, if it's good I'm gonna get one probably.
De Oude Delft 50mm f0.75's are just modified X-ray lenses.
The glass will make you nurse a semi but the images will be softer than the belly of an undomesticated Vicuna roaming between an altitude of 3000 and 5500 feet and the depth of field has to be measured with a caliper.
Nice for tumblr pictures and the odd experiment but not a real world lens, by a long shot.
omnidataDe Oude Delft 50mm f0.75's are just modified X-ray lenses.
The glass will make you nurse a semi but the images will be softer than the belly of an undomesticated Vicuna roaming between an altitude of 3000 and 5500 feet and the depth of field has to be measured with a caliper.
Nice for tumblr pictures and the odd experiment but not a real world lens, by a long shot.
Yeah, really the only thing they're good for is fucking around. Not something I'd want in my bag for any real reason.
DingoSeanThis thread has become the 'post photos of leicas' thread...
Do you want some more?
The Leica bit of the camera display inside le Theatre de la Photographie et de l'Image, a gallery in Nice. It's a small section, but goddamn it is beautiful.
The Leica bit of the camera display inside le Theatre de la Photographie et de l'Image, a gallery in Nice. It's a small section, but goddamn it is beautiful.
Those should be used, not slowly deteriorating behind glass.
lIllIDespite how shitty that camera was, it is too iconic to ignore.
That's the point. You can't really even compare it to anything on the digital still photography side of things. It defined an entire generation of filmers. If you weren't shooting skate videos with this in 1997, then you were wasting your life.
DingoSeanThat's the point. You can't really even compare it to anything on the digital still photography side of things. It defined an entire generation of filmers. If you weren't shooting skate videos with this in 1997, then you were wasting your life.
According to a significant proportion of skateboarders, if you still aren't shooting with one then you're wasting your life.
