stefan Posted August 2, 2016 Share #1 Posted August 2, 2016 (edited) Advertisement (gone after registration) Hi all. I live in northwest New Mexico and have shot LTM gear back in the 1970s. Since retiring I've sold some guitars and amplifiers and bought some M cameras and lenses. I shoot black and white film, usually HP5+. Thank God for Ilford's devotion to black-and-white film and chemistry. I'm also starting a project using Rollei infrared film. My favorite camera is the M5 - I have two of them, one of them with an M4-P viewfinder frame. Also an M6, and a Minolta CLE that I use full frame with a Zeiss ZM 25mm. Lenses are the 25, a 35 Summarit f2.5, a Type 3 50 Summicron and a Summarit 75 f2.5. All are quite sharp and I'm happy with them all. I don't like changing lenses so I use all four cameras. Kind of an expensive way to do it but it works for me - this way I don't drop a lens when changing. All my lenses are used in good shape, bought online at decent prices. Retired journalist - I work part-time as a writing tutor at a local junior college. My son in college shoots a Minolta CLE with a Rokkor f2.0 40mm - gotta get him started on film, right? So I'm finally shooting with M gear, an upgrade from my Olympus OM-System SLR stuff (not that OM cameras and lenses are bad - they're just not Leica good) and pretty happy. I do like the heft of the cameras and the quality of the lenses. Edited August 2, 2016 by stefan Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Manoleica Posted August 2, 2016 Share #2 Posted August 2, 2016 Welcome, the knowledgeable ones always end up with Leica cameras & lenses..L Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandokan Posted August 6, 2016 Share #3 Posted August 6, 2016 Welcome. Just a question - I would have thought that in New Mexico you would have so much light, that you would be an FP4 user and not HP5? Is it the grain you like? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StS Posted August 6, 2016 Share #4 Posted August 6, 2016 Welcome to the forum. If you excuse my sense of humour, I have suggested to our management not to hire any more guys named Stefan any more, since we frequently get e-mails for each other ( ). I still have an OM4 (brilliant exposure meter, in my view) and a few OM lenses, it appears, that I like small, competent cameras with silent cloth shutters. With Leicas, there is a quote from one of the founders of Rolls-Royce (so Mr. Rolls or Mr. Royce, obviously), that the quality remains, when the price is long forgotten. They tend to stick around, can be repaired and selling them is typically regretted. Stefan Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalHeMan Posted August 6, 2016 Share #5 Posted August 6, 2016 Welcome! And pretty surprised the user name 'stefan' was still available on a forum with so many German members Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iduna Posted August 12, 2016 Share #6 Posted August 12, 2016 stefan, welcome to the forum! The light your place should be gorgeous, so we will be excited to see something being shared. Get started...! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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