So with the arrival of the M9 I knew I needed to decide if I wanted it before I did anything stupid. I had no real experience with \"serious\" rangefinders so I decided to buy a zeiss ikon and biogon 35/2. My adventure lasted 8 weeks. Cant say anything bad about the camera or the lens, everything was exactly as they had told me they should be. Also, I dont know exactly what it was that put me off it. Although I dont usually shoot a lot of 35mm format, I gave this camera a good go, about 25 rolls in total. I slowly realised that I basically didnt want to shoot it anymore. No idea why, it just happened. I know that you\'re supposed to persevere for more than 8 weeks before you get in the flow of working with an RF, especially if you\'re a fast shooter like me, but I just didnt see the point. There was nothing special in the camera or the photos to make me stick around, I just didnt feel the love... The photos from my Hexar AF just looked better. Nothing to do with image quality, just more interesting photos, better composed, better light, better content. The Hexar suited my shooting style better and after a while I simply used that and left the Ikon home. So I sold it.
Point I\'m trying to make: you can read up and discuss a camera on the internet as much as you want, but sometimes its the intangibles that make a camera right for you or not. And you will never know until you try, so do that, try with something cheap(er) first. I would hate it if that had happened to me with a $10k camera and then I had to take a $2k hit by selling it. Now I\'m happy I did things that way and I got it out of my system with practically no financial loss (I got a good deal on the ikon)
Nov 11, 2009 at 10:33 PM
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