Shooting a lot of film doesn't make your pictures any better. I'd have to agree pretty much with Bob Walkden's comments wrt shooting with the Leica.
It took me a while to get used to the camera - I even used it for a while and became so disgusted with it that I stuck it in the cabinet for almost six months. Now, like Bob, I use it almost every day and find that for street shooting and people pictures it offers a much better view than an SLR. I do seem to have one advantage, and that's that I'm somewhat able to pre-visualize DOF, although I really don't worry or think about it too much. "Juan J. Buhler" wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, J. C. O'Connell wrote: > > > Any of you all use equipment other than > > Pentax at times? > > Leica M6, with 50 Summicron and Russian 35 and 85 lenses. > > I cannot seem to get used to the M6. I'm too slow to focus the > rangefinder, and sometimes I just forget it's not the MX and think > that if what I see is in focus the picture will also be. The other day > I spent about one hour taking the last 20 shots of a roll, walking > around chinatown in San Francisco. When I finished, I pulled out the > MX with K30/2.8 and then K85/1.8 and shot a roll and a half in 30 > minutes, in the same two or three blocks I had been walking around > with the M6. I guess I have to keep practicing with the Leica, but > don't want to give up the MX. -- Shel Belinkoff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .

