It is unorthodox and beautiful. It allows for candid street shooting as well as landscape photography. It is small enough to fit in your pocket, silent with its cloth lens, and versatile, allowing you to capture those moments when you don't want to be obtrusive but you must have the shot, and you wan't to capture just what you see.Recently deceased world-famous photographer Henry Cartier-Bresson used a Leica camera. Following suit, I would like the Leica M7 camera, seen here:As you can see, it is tiny and it uses 35mm film (not digital, gasp!). According to Froogle, I can get one for as little as $2299.99.That is just for the body. For the lens I would like the Leica Chrome Summilux, found again on Froogle new for as little as $1499.98.I would then like to be able to convert my pictures to a digital format, so I will also be needing the Sony UY-S100 film scanner. If you have never seen a digital film scanner, you essentially develop your negatives (I could do this very cheaply in a home lab setup) and then feed them into the scanner for resolutions up to 3648x2048 (that is right around 10 megapixels). The price tag is only $6195.95. Here's a picture:Doubtfully will I ever in my lifetime be able to dole out $9995.92 on a hobby that proves expensive not only in its startup but also in its operation. My conscience would probably kill me the next time I saw a rather photogenic homeless man (several of which I have taken rather nice photos of). Luckily, Leica also offers the Leica Digilux 2, a 5 megapixel beauty that I could get for as little as $1850.00.Did I mention that my birthday is only 15 days away? Any Bill Gateses in my blogging audience? :)
 
   

 


 
 
drunknphilosphr on
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You have good taste!! I am no Bill Gates...but I am still willing to buy you a barrell of BEER ps. That camera costs much more than my car
antipodes on
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Come, now, think what books you can get for that. Unfortunately you can't even get a first edition of "The Christmas Carol" for that. I think you can get a good copy of "All Hallow's Eve" though. It is a beautiful camera. I thought you kind of quit the photography sphere? Back to Welsh bards and German translators . . . I love my classes . . .
prtiger on
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$10k for a camera set up. Only if you plan on making a living at it. You could you are very adept and maybe you should give that career some thought; but like your friend said you can buy alot of books for that.Let us know when the photos are up.What do you need for your Birthday? Do you want us to wait until you are State-side? Easier to send then. Let us know.All our LoveGram and Grampsps: K & S went to Vegas so we have the kids till Friday. Lets try to email what is a good time.

 
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