Back to basics. I can't explain how this happened but a while ago I became pretty tired of everything digital and superpractical and TFT and DVD. I started to think about what I things (both material and immaterial) I have wished for thru the years, what came true and what that didn't.
I have always enjoyed taking pictures. Sometimes this must have been a little annoying to friends in different situations - it's not always a please to stare right into a lens... I have owned numerous 35mm cameras over the years and lately I have been longing for a Leica Digilux 2 (or a Panasonic DMC LC-1 which is the same thing). Well, I went to a shop and had a look at it, found that it for sure is a nice tool but also with several drawbacks, and that is except of the pricetag that is repelling). As I haven't seen any other digicam I would like to have I put the whole ideea aside - I'm still not ready for a digicam.
Anyway, in this certain field my old dreams (and that is since the 70ties) embrace a Leica M5. Why such a thing? I can't really tell... Maybe I was appealed by that German design of the time together with the "new" feature from Wetzlar; an inbuilt lightmeter...
And the shutter was even more smooth than on previous models and there was a shutter speed indicator in the viewfinder...
Ok, you guess it, I have today spent all my money (supposed to be saved for important things) and bought myself a 32 year old Leica M5 together with a 50 mm Summicron lens. And as a digital gadget a new filmscanner too.
Lol, I never stop to wonder at the strange things one (at least me) do. I feel totally content with this used piece of photografic equipment, pretty scratched and ugly (=affordable) allthough perfectly functioning. And mind you, the lens is a youngster at the age of 20 years only...
Now off to a photo forum, just felt like telling you about my absence.
(Some day I will by a digicam, they just have to build one I like.)