Makten wrote:
And we\'re obviously very different here as well. I want something that is as good as possible and I like the idea of only having one lens, so that everything about the photographing is up to me.
Perhaps, but you have to admit that your rate of gear acquisition/change by far outstrips mine. While I have high standards for optical quality what usually attracts me to a lens is a specific rendering style.
As for having just one lens - there is a charm to it, but having multiple lenses doesn\'t exclude using just one for a while. Generally I don\'t favor to be limited by technology and although I usually shoot with one lens during a photo session, I prefer to have the option to switch. If I see a scene where where another lens will produce results that are more to my liking, I switch. It\'s not about focal length primarily but about rendering - I\'ve on occasion gone out shooting with four different 35mm primes.
If my financial little plan works, I\'ll buy the M9 tomorrow and we\'ll see what happens next.
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carstenw wrote:
Well, this is where I bring out *my* old harp, and repeat something I have said before: it should not be about the equipment anyway, but about the vision. Or, in my old words, you need a project you care about, and you will be able to forget about buying new lenses.
Projects are dull - being systematic is not my thing. As for what it\'s all about: it\'s a hobby so it\'s all about my own enjoyment. It\'s not about anything except what I want it to be about. What does it for me is the spontaneous excitement of finding a neat composition and overall visual look, the fun of exploring a new lens, the feel of the camera and a bunch of other things. I don\'t have any ambitions of creating a serious body of work and I do get bored easily so thematic projects are not my thing.
I am all for buying the best equipment possible, don\'t get me wrong, but when you get there, use it, don\'t look around for the next thing. After Zeiss lenses on a DSLR, and Leica M lenses on an M9, the next quality step would probably be medium format digital anyway, but the size would kill this idea.
The MFD sensors are still too small to interest me, but when 6x7 digital cameras will be available I\'m sure to get one. For now I don\'t have any particular camera gear cravings - I don\'t really want or need anything more. The 0.95 Nocti could perhaps be interesting but I\'m not interested enough in it to justify the expense. Apart from that I can\'t think of anything that I\'d want right now. My last lens purchase was the 90 Cron AA and that was some five months ago.
There are some potentially interesting DSLR lenses, but I can\'t honestly see myself going back to using a DSLR on a regular basis. There are occasions when I do and it warrants keeping the gear that I have, but that\'s about it.
