I second Bill's recommendation. You'll get much more joy
from an old Leica M3 or M4 where *you* are in control of focus.
Dawid
On 19 Mar 2011, at 1:02 AM, bill pearce wrote:
> Nick,
>
> May I make a recommendation based on my own experience? Before you
> jump
> into the G2 system, try one, if possible over several rolls of film,
> to see
> if you are comfortable with the autofocus system. I found it mind
> numbing
> and unreliable.
>
> On the other hand, the lenses were the best I've ever owned!
>
> Bill Pearce
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nicholas Herndon" <nherndon@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 5:10 PM
> Subject: [OM] Let's go crazy!
>
>
>> March Madness indeed.
>> This has been a wild month, starting with my birthday, then a
>> lovely visit
>> with my grandmother, followed by the earthquake in Japan where
>> several of
>> my
>> close friends live or have family (all are safe, thankfully),
>> followed by
>> my
>> yearly bonus and raise (which was quite a blessing) immediately
>> followed
>> by
>> my house being broken into. Beware the Ides of March! Funny
>> enough, they
>> didn't touch any of my camera gear. I think the burglars were in a
>> hurry
>> because our dogs were in the back yard barking their heads off,
>> though the
>> thieves still made out with quite a bit of our stuff.
>>
>> Anyway, everyone (including the dogs) is okay, we've beefed up
>> security
>> (which was extremely lax, shame on us) and should be able to
>> replace most
>> of
>> the stolen items.
>>
>> So I've decided to continue this March theme of shakeups and
>> shakedowns.
>> I
>> just purchased a Fuji GA645 as my first foray into medium format,
>> and will
>> be selling ALL of my Oly gear, save a couple lenses and two OM bodies
>> (TBD). My Zuikoholism got way out of hand over the past few
>> months, and
>> I'm
>> realizing more and more that there are really only a specific few
>> focal
>> lengths that I'm comfortable with. Whatever money I make off that
>> venture
>> will almost certainly go back into some film gear (probably a
>> Contax G2
>> outfit) and more film as I am going to continue shooting film for the
>> foreseeable future. You see, when our house was robbed, my wife's
>> laptop
>> was stolen, along with almost all of my digital photos that were on
>> it;
>> however, all of my prints and film negs and slides were untouched!
>> While
>> I
>> probably won't bother with rescanning, at least I still have the
>> negs/slides
>> if I want to go back and print.
>>
>> For all of its idiosyncrasies, film still has some major
>> advantages, one
>> of
>> which is that crackhead burglars think film and film gear is
>> worthless.
>>
>> Anyway, I'll let the list know when I have the OM selloff--list
>> members
>> will
>> get first dibs before the remainder goes on sale across various gear
>> forums.
>>
>> As an aside, just today I purchased a pro pack of Portra 400. I
>> can't
>> wait
>> to see how it does. I've heard it actually does well with
>> underexposure,
>> unlike most print film, and my experience with the older formula
>> Portras
>> shows that overexposure results in some pretty bad color shifting
>> way into
>> the magenta. I'm going to try shooting the first roll at 500 and
>> see what
>> happens. If it looks good, I'll underexpose at an EI of 640, and
>> see what
>> that does. If *that* looks good, I will never again buy Fuji 800Z,
>> since
>> I
>> shoot it at an EI of 640. We'll see!
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