Cool new Bessa w/ 50/2.0 Heliar

[dan m]

Limited edition, mechanical shutter, and what looks like a collapsable lens:

Available in June - no idea of price.

Gimme.

 

[Martin D]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[Rowan]

Why do I just get the dreaded little red "x" on some pics?

This is since I did a re-install of Windows XP a few weeks ago.

 

[dan m]

bank manager installed filter?

 

[Martin D]

that happens to me when i'm not logged on

 

[Joe P]

Cool. Is it digital or filmical?

Joe

 

[Martin D]

 

[Martin D]

The sets consist of either the new Voigtlander Bessa R2M or R3M with the new Voigtlander 50/2 Heliar collapsible lens in M mount

 

[dan m]

Heresy - digital and C-V shouldn't even be used in the same sentence. Ooops, I just did it - damn!

 

[vuk]

whenever i see the puny baselength of the rangefinder, it puts me off completely. i really wish they'd do something about that. this is a camera which looks nicer than it fondles--perhaps desirable in a woman...

vuk.

 

[dan m]

I don't find focussing my 50 Nokton a problem with the R, but if I had a 75 or 90 I'd start to worry. I suppose getting the 1x viewfinder helps a bit, but you loose the 35mm frame lines. The new Zeiss Ikon seems to have a large baselength viewfinder - I wonder who actually makes that? IIRC doesn't CV make some of the new Zeiss glass?

Dan

edit: CV does make the new Ikon - why on earth didn't they use that rangefinder on the 3M?

 

[matthewr]

I <3'd my Bessa till the rewind crank fell off during my holiday.

 

[michaelab]

Still don't get the rangefinder obsession...do you guys also drive Model T's?

The 1756-2006, 250 Jahre (years) markings of that limited edition are pretty cynical. About the only thing that's been around for 250 years is the Voigtländer name.

Michael.

 

[matthewr]

Model T is a poor analogy as rangefinders are alternatives to SLRs rather than one being an advancement over the other.

Rangefinders and the sportscars (small, light, fast handling, bare bones) and SLRS are the station wagons (big, heay, flexible, mulit-use, expanqable),.

 

[dan m]

Still don't get the rangefinder obsession...do you guys also drive Model T's?

Some of us even have turntables! I think what Cosina's Kobayashi is doing for rangefinders is far from cynical.

Dan

 

[Joe P]

Matthew,

SLRS are the station wagons (big, heay, flexible, mulit-use, expanqable),.

Using that analogy, my F4 is a military hovercraft.

Joe

 

[matthewr]

Hovercrafts are cool though!

The F4 is more your Russian fat-bottomed military transport plane:

 

[Joe P]

Matthew,

The F4 is more your Russian fat-bottomed military transport plane:

The embarrassment of shooting pix with a Russian fat-bottomed military transport plane disturbs me to the point of insanity. Surely, a suave bloke such as myself needs a stylish camera -- an FM3A, with matching 45mm the pancake lens.

Joe

 

[dan m]

Joe,

You need the FM3a in order to catch this kind of shot:

 

[Joe P]

Dan,

Close. You'd need an olde tyme F2A to get that shot:

Joe