kenneth Posted October 24, 2008 Share #21 Posted October 24, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) Buy a body which was manufactured in the year of your birth. That is a lovely idea. Too late though I just bought a second M6. The reason I decided to have 2 bodies is so as I can have two differing speeds of B&W film loaded at the same time. And do I need 2 bodies, well errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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PeterIH Posted October 28, 2008 Share #22 Posted October 28, 2008 Well, my 2 cents.. I have an M6TTL .85 and an M3 SS (1959). I have always a delta 100 in the M6 and a Delta 400 in the M3. The idea is, that those films are used under different conditions. The M6 under normal conditions and the M3 under poor light/low contrast conditions. So both cameras need different metering, compensation in metering and different developement of the films. That is difficult to do with just 1 body. When you come under different lighting conditions you should change your film etc. Great for view cameras but not really ideal for 35mm. Well, I don't do it anyhow. And then there was the photo trip to Barcelona last year..... Every year I visit a famous (or infamous) city fot a week or 10 days, strolling the streets, visiting the venues and enjoying the vistas. And shooting 10-20 films in the proces. Most of the time on foot crossing the city and walking over 100 km's in a week. So no heavy equipment. Minimum is mandatory. Before leaving home I had a serious discussion with myself wether to take the M3 with me as a second body. (Larger bag, more weight..) and decided to do it in order to prevent some lens switching. (M3 with 90 mm is Great (capital G). On the 2nd day of my trip the shutter of the 4 years old M6TTL gave the spirit so to speak; the curtains folded within the camera and it was definitly out of commission. My 50 years old M3 very happily took over and I didn't miss a shot!. Why not two bodies??? The whole purpose of the trip was photography. Had I not have the M3 with me I could as well have gone home... Peter. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stnami Posted October 28, 2008 Share #23 Posted October 28, 2008 And do I need 2 bodies, well errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. If you wore out the first one it is something to consider. There's a couple in the ward that could do with a few parts... good thing about the ward is having wireless connection Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leitz_not_leica Posted October 30, 2008 Share #24 Posted October 30, 2008 ALWAYS have at least two Ms at your disposal. I was working in Russia just after 9/11/01 and the shutter curtains in my M4 separated with no repair facilities in sight. If I didn't have a second with me I would have been SOL. The two body, two lens (most often 35/50), two film idea (even same film) works great when on the move. They both fit in a Domke F-5XB with four more small lenses (12/21/40/90) and only weigh a few kilos, though I rarely bring all six with me on an outing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenneth Posted October 30, 2008 Share #25 Posted October 30, 2008 If you wore out the first one it is something to consider. There's a couple in the ward that could do with a few parts... good thing about the ward is having wireless connection As if Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter58 Posted October 31, 2008 Share #26 Posted October 31, 2008 I am currently carring in belt pouches 2 film bodies with a lens mounted on each. Sometimes one with color and the other with B&W and sometimes both are loaded with color. Always the same ISO film. First I will talk about the M5 with the Summaron LTM 35mm lens mounted. It is usefull for landscapes and around town shots. The M5 is also usefull to indicate the framelines of 28-135mm (the 100% view in the finder is a good approximation of 28mm field of view but it does not actually have the 28mm framelines, but rather 35, 50, 90 & 135mm). Additionally it has the light meter which is available when I want to be 100% sure about shutter speed and aperture settings with my other meterless Barnack camera. I do however use the Sunny 16 Rule and usually know the light before I am even advancing the film to shoot. As large as the M5 is I have found a really nice belt pouch for it and so that's how I carry it-in the belt pouch but only with the Summaron LTM 35mm lens as it's so small.. Sometimes I even bring along in another belt pouch the Seiko/Epson R-D1 with another collapsible 50mm Elmar on it, this gives me a 75mm field of view. Also when shooting film (everyday now) I also carry the Zorki 1c with 50mm Industar copy of the collapsible Elmar lens. This fits into my pants pocket, or for really easy and fast accessibility I fit it into a small p&s belt case. Anyway I have been fighting the urge to purchase another Barnack camera. I could put the 28mm lens on it and then I would have 28, 35 and 50mm covered whenever I'm out shooting film. Again, the M5 seves as my light meter and also helps when I need accurate frame line/field of view determination's for the other camera's as they only have the 50mm viewfinder. If I decide to carry 4 bodies each with a lens mounted and each in their own belt pouch then I will have 28, 35, 50 and 75mm field of view covered. If you think at this point I should carry just one slr with a zoom, well believe it or not this would be to cumbersom for me. The small Barnacks and the larger M5 and R-D1 all carry better and I leave my hands free when I'm not actually using the camera. BTW my real join date is 2005, somehow when visiting the Leica show (on-line) they asked me to re-register. I have ended up with a new join date and member name. I am Peter55, or rather was Peter55. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenneth Posted October 31, 2008 Share #27 Posted October 31, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) I am now convinced of the advantage of having 2 bodies. They are both M6 classics 0.72, one black and one chrome. Along with three lenses 35mm 50mm and a 75mm they fit my Billingham 225 perfectly along with a Weston Master V and an old flash gun + film. That amount of gear is quite carryable locally however if I go onto the hill I just take the 2 bodies and one lens + film and if I chose the wrong lens to take so be it. I don't take the picture. I like the advantage of 2 bodies though as this allows me to carry either 2 asa speeds of B&W film or 1 B&W film and one loaded with Kodachrome 64. Sometimes I do not take a camera at all. This is when experiencing the scene is more important than capturing it on film Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
antistatic Posted November 4, 2008 Author Share #28 Posted November 4, 2008 Thanks to all who posted their thoughts on this weighty matter. I'm back from Melbourne and enjoyed several hours playing with the second hand Leica gear at The Camera Exchange. They had a great array of M3s and several DR summicrons. I was sorely tempted but thought I would miss the 35mm frame lines. They also had a couple of M2s but only a limited range of older 35mm lenses. I also had a play with a great looking R6.2 but I don't need another lens mount in my life . Anyway, the more I played, the more the words of the venerable thread from this forum kept coming to mind; "I love my MP". I eventually walked out with a Ex+++ 35mm cron asph and a smile on my face. Happy Birthday to me (for this Friday) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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