I love my M4

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[otto.f]

1 hour ago, Börje Norhager said:

too dark?

No

[sandro]

5 hours ago, Börje Norhager said:

Iestimate the distance to the object...(but with my Super Angulon 21 mm f3.4 I lse frequently use the hyperfocal distance setting) but it´s all worth it -

The enclose picture I have named "In my kitchen", from my 2 bedroom apartment where I live - is the picture too dark?
 

 

It sounds as if you don't use the rangefinder of your M4. Why not? Once you use the M4 often, you probably will speed up the process of shutter speed and aperture choice with a lightmeter, focus with the rangefinder and shoot.

I don't think your photo is too dark, if this resebles the actual situation.

Lex

[Börje Norhager]

It is a special case if the 21 mm lens is used - I find it necessary to use the extra 21 mm finder to determine what will be captured in the photo and what is not. But by using a hyperfocal distance setting, the required settings ar limited to two variables, aperture and shutter speed. And - those two are considered anyway, during stetting the hyperfocal range. 

So, to take pictures with the 21 mm wide angled Super Angulon lens, the range finder of the camera is practically not needed then!

[F456]

On 3/27/2024 at 1:33 AM, ktmrider2 said:

I have been doing a lot of reading and thinking on this very subject.  It would certainly be a freeing experience.  I am thinking of traveling to Scotland with just my MP or M4 with one lens.  However, I do not know if that would be a 35 or 50 as I like both focal lengths.  If I travel with two lenses, it is always a 35/90 combo but I have traveled with only a 50 in the past.

I know I have too many M mount lenses with duplicate lenses in 35 and 50.  In. many ways, selling everything but one camera and one lens is super attractive.  Honestly, I don't know if I have the courage to do it.  I have tried to trim the system in the past and always add lenses over 3-5 years.

I solved that probably very common predicament among us GAS-victims quite neatly some years ago, with shortish (say 5 days to 2 week) trips in mind. Like you I tend to think of pairing two lenses but sometimes using the one in between instead. So thinking about or planning what kind of countryside, streets and sights I am likely to encounter over the next few days I alternate the lenses day to day. For instance it might be the 35 and 90mm one day but just the 50 on the next. Or just swapping between two lenses, using one for a day and the other for another. That should work as once out on the ground you don't get caught in a paralysis of choice but you will start to see what you find yourself taking pictures of to best effect with each lens.  

Last year I found myself in exactly this position with the same focal lengths that you are mentioning. 35 and 90 then on other days 50. I learnt a lot from that way of working. At other times I would take a 24 (I must be one of the very few who like 24 on an M - I don't find the external v/f to be a problem at all) and a 50, alternating with just a 35 for the days in between. Personally I don't get on so well with a 28 but nothing against it; it's just what I have found.

And I meant to say that like all on here I love my M4: it is my most used body now and my favourite, apart potentially from a fantastically good condition M3 that I took delivery of this morning and which I can't wait to shoot with 50 and 90mm.

Hope this is of some use; I'll be interested to read what you decided and how you got on — I haven't yet read the rest of the long thread as I couldn't wait to post how much I like my black M4. I do have a black M4-P also, which is just as nice to use but maybe not quite as attractive because of the red spot and all the writing on the front of the top plate. I definitely prefer the script just to be on the top as in the M3, M2 and M4. Yes, M4 is lovely.

Edited October 31 by F456