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AdaptedLenses wrote:
At the risk of being the condescending troll my advice would be to slow down and really think about what you enjoy about photography, end to end all the way to display, then start ranking/prioritizing. Even as you acknowledge so friction your still at odds with yourself. Leica system is small and excellent but you want the trinity on mirrorless. I don’t think Leica has the trinity zooms. And you can get compact and excellent in all mirrorless systems (maybe not all the way to f/1.4 fast) but then you probably aren’t chasing speed with trinity zooms. And a Leica system when you don’t like the R6 because the Sony focuses faster (if I understood you).
And candidly I get it, no one is making bodies I like anymore and there is t much exotic g coming on the lens front these days (for me). And I also prefer small and light. But it’ll be a merry go round till you define what’s most important and why. And sounds like you’re stuck in multiple systems, unicorns are rare. ...Show more →
You are not a troll. I totally get what you are saying, and I agree; I need to take a deep introspective look at what it is that I want to achieve regarding photography at this stage in my life.
This is the thing; when I purchased my very first 35mm film camera back in 1979 (a Pentax K1000), I was hooked! Since then I've had an on again/off again relationship with photography. I have been trying to recreate/relive that wonderful, happy time I had when I first started this journey. Chasing the dragon so to speak. Back then both the gear AND the results I got with the gear brought me joy. Now it's either one or the other. Interestingly enough, I haven't printed anything in years except for the sporadic rolls of film I shoot whenever I buy a nice old 35mm film camera.
So, I've found a somewhat "happy medium"; travel photography. I get that "newness thrill" whenever I travel to someplace new, and I try to capture it as faithfully as possible (including darkly lit interiors of European cathedrals, cobblestone streets at dusk, etc). Walking around those places with a giant camera around my neck sucks the joy out of being there. Yes, I really love to carry my tiny, lightweight OM-5 with me, but the images are something between APS-C and a cellphone. Definitely not anything I can crop, print, or view the tiny details that I couldn't see when I was there in person taking the picture.
I also enjoy shooting the occasional macro images of spiders in my yard and somewhat cool looking birds in my neighborhood. But if I had to choose which genre of photography brings me the most joy right now, it would be travel photography.
One of my future plans is to use some of my images to create oil/acrylic paintings. For that I need to be able to crop certain parts of the images I capture. Smaller sensor cameras won't be of much help with that, so I need to stick with FF cameras.
So, based on everything I mentioned above, a Leica rangefinder with 3 fast primes would probably be the ideal outfit for me. But, like I mentioned in my OP, I don't have Leica money. I can come up with $10,000 for a couple of lenses over the next year, but I can't come up with $30,000 to get my "ideal Leica outfit". Fast "trinity" zooms are economically practical because they replace 3 lenses, but they are too heavy to carry around my neck. Fast GM/L primes are a bit lighter, but I really don't know by how much. So, that's a summary of my "dilemma".
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