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travis forsyth
03-12-2011, 15:40
It's been 3 months since I started saving money for the first time in my life. Now I am on the home stretch for a Bessa R3M as my first rangefinder. Funny all it took was handling a friends to develop the desire to save money.
I am still undecided on the lens but the 40mm 1.4 looks like a good choice from what I have seen here but I will let this years tax return be the judge of what I actually buy.


It has been a pretty hard fight, I've almost pulled the trigger on my credit card a few times to get the hard part over with.
kshapero
03-12-2011, 15:41
An R3M and a CV 40mm is a mighty fine rig.
travis forsyth
03-12-2011, 15:47
An R3M and a CV 40mm is a mighty fine rig.

Excellent :D The only thing I am worried about is it not being delivered soon enough. I hate to wait.
charjohncarter
03-12-2011, 16:00
You will like a Bessa. I bought one from the 'head bartender' and have been very happy. I needed a BessaR because I only had LTM lenses. But they are probably very similar. The meter is excellent (reflective, of course), and the shutter is heaven, plus the 1/125 flash synch is helpful. I read that the 'R' suffered from some kind of shutter dislocation so I'm very slow at advancing my film and I stop at the first hint of the end of a roll. I felt liberated after using my 1/50 synch Leica IIIf for so many years.

This winter I went to Mexico and used my flash with the BessaR, very fun. This is fill flash with Elitechrome:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5216/5491762307_24ec6a5934.jpg

and, guess what these guys were up to:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5171/5491762945_c32d53471b.jpg
travis forsyth
03-16-2011, 06:01
Pulled the trigger and placed the order. Waiting is driving me absolutely crazy. My new loader and 100ft roll of HP5 showed up before it... but they only had a fraction of the distance to go.

Sure hope the weather is fair the day this shows up.
travis forsyth
03-17-2011, 18:11
It's here! I got to give it to the guys at Leica Boutique in Montreal, incredibly helpful fellows even from over 2000 km away!
pbo
03-17-2011, 18:19
Congrats on a new camera! Now you only need cartridges for all that HP5 :D
travis forsyth
03-17-2011, 18:23
Congrats on a new camera! Now you only need cartridges for all that HP5 :D

I have 20 rolls made up! Owner of the loader threw in a bunch for me. Just need a day off now to go shootin.