Topic: It's a GAS! GAS! GAS!

[SLVR]

Trying to keep modest! Im really glowing having got this camera. Cant wait to go out and shoot with it seriously.

[Fluminian]

Trying to keep modest! Im really glowing having got this camera. Cant wait to go out and shoot with it seriously.

Now you're talking! Good luck with your new camera and may she provide a ton of happiness and excellent images.

[Francois]

I think i got a decent deal, M2 with Summicron both CLA'd last month for $1000.

Was yours modified with the trident take-up spool?
If not, I think it would be worth investigating if your Leica servicemen can put one in. It makes loading so much easier!

As for the registration distances, take a look at this and you'll understand
http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/~westin/misc/mounts-by-register.html

[SLVR]

I believe thats the M2-R that has the faster loading. I was looking at quickload spools last night. The kits range from 75-120$ for pretty much a standard spool that isnt guaranteed to fit. Im not too bent out of shape with loading. Its almost the same as loading my IIIa and i can load pretty quick if the film has been cut previously.

[Late Developer]

I believe thats the M2-R that has the faster loading. I was looking at quickload spools last night. The kits range from 75-120$ for pretty much a standard spool that isnt guaranteed to fit. Im not too bent out of shape with loading. Its almost the same as loading my IIIa and i can load pretty quick if the film has been cut previously.

Beautiful camera TinTin. Gotta love a Leica full of Tri-X 

[SLVR]

Thank you! Right now im feeding it Portra and Foma 400. I dont have any Tri X in 35mm at the moment!

[Sandeha Lynch]

I know the feeling.  My own M2 is currently half way through a bar of Trix.

Film loading?  It's faster than a Hasselblad.   

[mcduff]

While the most I have spent on a film camera (well, for the last 20 years at least) is under $200, the $1,000 tintin spent is pretty economical. He could be shooting with that thing for decades with the occasional CLA (and then sell it for more than he paid for it). Fortunately I have the 35mm camera of my dreams - the much more modest ON2n - but I will at some point drop some reasonable cash for a Pentax 67, so maybe I am just using his purchase to rationalize my future ones haha. 

For an adventure that involves technology, film photography - even if you are getting a camera of your dreams - is pretty economical. Or so I will explain to my wife when I buy a Pentax 67

[Fluminian]

While the most I have spent on a film camera (well, for the last 20 years at least) is under $200, the $1,000 tintin spent is pretty economical. He could be shooting with that thing for decades with the occasional CLA (and then sell it for more than he paid for it). Fortunately I have the 35mm camera of my dreams - the much more modest ON2n - but I will at some point drop some reasonable cash for a Pentax 67, so maybe I am just using his purchase to rationalize my future ones haha. 

For an adventure that involves technology, film photography - even if you are getting a camera of your dreams - is pretty economical. Or so I will explain to my wife when I buy a Pentax 67

It's OM2n I believe. 
 

[mcduff]

It's OM2n I believe. 

What are you talking about Fluminian, you need new glasses 

Or maybe I have too much time on my hands right now and the real story is I mash my iphone keys with my big thumbs

[Fluminian]

It's OM2n I believe. 

What are you talking about Fluminian, you need new glasses 

Or maybe I have too much time on my hands right now and the real story is I mash my iphone keys with my big thumbs

I don't know what I'm talking about. New glasses? Definitely.   

[SLVR]

you guys are weird 

[Mike (happyforest)]

It's OM2n I believe. 

What are you talking about Fluminian, you need new glasses 

Or maybe I have too much time on my hands right now and the real story is I mash my iphone keys with my big thumbs

Ah! You have a poor quality, Chinese rip off of an OM2n. You'll never get any decent images with that.  Send it to me and I'll dispose of it for you.

Mike