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Re: [OM] Albert's quest

Subject: Re: [OM] Albert's quest
From: "John A. Lind" <jlind@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 23:05:16 -0500
At 06:16 PM 8/31/03, Richard F. Man wrote:

My main criteria are sharp pictures in hand held shooting in low light wide apertures. I am happy with my decision. I just thought that you should quantify why you want a MF before getting one.

An aside:
MF would not work well for this. The *fastest* MF lens that has ever been made is the Sekor 80/1.9 for the Mamiya manual focus 645's and it's still in production (same lens mount for decades). Everything else starts at f/2.8 or slower. In addition, the lenses for 6x7 and 6x9 are slower than the comparable ones for 645 and 6x6.

I've carried an M645 with prism finder around for hours at a time, both with and without camera rotating flash bracket. It's bulky and a lot of weight even without bracket and flash, and it's not nearly as agile for quick shooting of candids. I do carry it occasionally, but realize I'm not going to be able to work as quickly with it as I can with 35mm small format, i.e. burn rate will be much lower.

-- John


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