Been a little while since I've shared, it's been a rather busy month+ for me. Still trying to shoot as much as I can, I keep bouncing between film and digital and I keep feeling like I want a Q at some point (but I've been saying that since it was released).
Anyways here's a few from the night markets in Marrakech. All on the M10 and 50 Summilux ASPH
airfrogusmc wrote:
I was going g to wait another month but I couldn't resist this price so I bought my 2nd M 10 body. It is new in the box full warranty. I figured I saved 2 K from what I would have paid if I would have bought it local. https://www.popflash.com
Congrats Allen. I will stay at a safe distance from there as I patiently await the next Monochrom. I downsized instead as I sold my Zeiss 35/2 recently and that leaves me with a nice and simple small kit of 24 Elmar, 50 Lux and 90 APO. The last few months I found myself carrying it but not using it much, still a good lens but time to move on.
Just received it a little while ago and is as described. New in box. Warranty has already been registered. What a deal..
I am really interested in seeing what the new Mono looks like. The M 10 is really good in low light so I can only imagine what the new MM will be like.
My travel kit is usually the MM and my 35 Lux FLE. My work kit will be the 2 M 10s and the M 262, 24 2.8 elmarit, 35 Lux FLE, 90 APO and 75 2.5 summarit. I still can't part with my M-E though I might now.
I'm very eager to see what the next generation Monochrom will be like as well. As I mentioned I'm somewhat interested in acquiring a Q to use along side my M10 with a 50 Summilux.
Otherwise I'm using a second gen 28 Summicron and 50 Summilux ASPH with my M10 and on film I'm using an M-A and a M6 TTL with the .58x finder. Bounced around a lot this year but it is fun to try things out. I do still have the little Minolta 40mm M-Rokkor too which has genuinely become one of my favorite lenses, it's just such a joy to use!
Werner, high quality images as always, thanks for sharing.
Charlie, Handsome portrait.
Here are a few latest images from my recent travel. I brought Z7 and MP240 with me. 21mm SEM stay with MP240 most of day time and 50lux and 90APO took my family images once I am at hotel.
Here are a few with 50lux from Grand Canyon, the last one was four images stitched.
Introduced in 1935, first one bought by Henry Ford, last of the great ones produced in 1974. My brother first played this one in 1960. He gave it to me a few weeks ago, and I dragged it home from Washington in a uhaul. I picked up the old brown Leslie speaker in Yakima on the way home. After a litte TLC it screams OMG
HIstory: https://youtu.be/5Ck__wghRww
No two sound the same. No modern clone can match them. A history of virtuosos continues: https://youtu.be/aas9NDzH_sY
One identical to mine, the RT-3, but walnut, and beat up sits in Abby Roads today, once played by the only non-Beatle musician ever credited in a Beatles Album. https://youtu.be/qwqHC_kMkOM?t=276
The RT-3 was the Cadillac B-3, with an extended pedal keyboard and onboard synthsiser for some extra pedal sounds, otherwise identical to the iconic B3. The B3 is 100lbs lighter and worth alot more today for that reason. A clean restored B3 can fetch 20k. Mine was bought new in 1960 by the Unity Church in Seattle for $3750. My brother, who often played it, overheard a discussion about replacing it the 80's. He bought it on the spot and took it home the next day.
When he offered it to me I had the same attitude. The process of getting up to some kind of speed on it's history, it's players, and it's maintience has been very rewarding. I'm learning basic COGIC shout music now