edwardkaraa wrote:
Thank you very much Zhangyue for your comments. Love the dusk colors in your photo.
Allen, beautiful play with light and shadows.
Werner, great perspective and dramatic angle.
Joakim, love the first one with the girl looking back.
Gary Clennan wrote:
I don't know much about the M-A. Is it roughly the same size as the other film M's? I think (could be wrong) that the M-A used is about the same as a nice MP used? I was shooting an old roll of Fuji film yesterday and had a scare when my M4 wouldn't advance any further and was stuck. I was pretty mad for most of the afternoon when I got back to work. Then I realized it was a 24 exposure roll and not my usual 36!! Duh!
I have TOTALLY done that and had the same freak-out! The M-A is identical in all dimensions to the other film M bodies, it is basically an MP without any electronics and a slightly different viewfinder (the frame lines are different from the MP/M7/M6 as there is no broken bottom line for the 28/35 frames and the 75mm frames are just tiny notches which I don’t find at all distracting (unlike my M240). I basically view it as a modern M2 with today’s frame lines. Mine’s black chrome and I love it.
Price-wise they can be found for about the price of a used MP. Mine was essentially new in the box for about what I paid for my (noticeably more used and 10 years older) MP body. I loved my MP and I do kind of wish I kept it around but I am completely happy with the M-A as my only film M. (I say only for now but knowing me I’ll probably wind up with another one eventually).