These would be 10/10 if more people were facing the camera but alas 7/10

Any tips for scanning? Dust?

yawn/10

>>4452596
>even the sky has worms, even using the specific Fuji RAW converter
>fuijslugs STILL DEFEND this garbage
holy shit, it's as if you had messed up your temps in development causing the film to reticulate, except it's actually X-tranny raping your photographs

>>4452612
>>even the sky has worms
What? It's completely normal to see worms in the sky dude. I'm convinced you've never gone outside

>>4452594
>How's this place doing?
very bad as evidenced by the trip fag pixel peeping noise to complain. It's just a gear autism shithole

>>4452620
Not noise, artifacts

>>4452620
What size should we view these pictures at?

>>4452623
1000x671 seems like an apt resolution to view them

>>4452612
>"worms"
That's sharpened film grain you nophoto notphotog retard

When cometh your "cinefag whacks off to dog dick" moment so you can be ran off the board

>>4452620
If cine(zoo)fag and cANON committed suicide tomorrow, /p/ would be paradise

>>4452625
>That's sharpened film grain
Holy cope Batman

>>4452627
It is.

You do not take photos.
You do not own a camera.

>>4452623
100%
>>4452625
>If cine(zoo)fag and cANON committed suicide tomorrow, /p/ would be paradise
You're missing a few people but you're right

>>4452628
I do take photos, with my cameras, and I develop them myself. Can you say the same? You probably don't even own a daylight tank or a thermometer. Let alone a scale and chemicals.

>>4452629
They're the only two people I'm certain exist.

Everyone else is a conglomerate of anonymous posts schizos accuse of being whoever they are obsessed with at that moment, ie: moop. Is moop real? Doubtful.

>>4452632
I have it on good authority that he an Herod a while ago

>>4452631
https://archive.palanq.win/p/search/username/cANON/filter/text/
No you don't

Mostly you're just aggressively wrong about gear
Reverse image search anything that looks like it might be a photo and it turns out to be stolen, except for the cat sitting behind your alcoholism

>>4452634
Wow, not one true statement in your entire post.
*judges you in kot*

>>4452637
You just don't belong here. Bye.

>>4452640
I guess I'm too honest for the shills that pollute this place

>>4452612
OP here. Actually you're right, even with X-Transformer, after the final sharpening there's still some traces of the Fuji worms.

It's not a problem unless you're inspecting at over 200% and on prints larger than 5x7, often even 8x10.

That being said, yeah, I see it. It's an inherent issue with the Fuji sensor but not a dealbreaker. When I can I'll move on to Sony for scan.

Also, as I should expect, it's kinda funny to see people here still treat relatively minor issues with such passion lol.

>>4452607
I bought the softest cheap brush I could find in my local arts & crafts store and that seemed to do 90% of the trick. The remaining (including bits of leftover remjet etc) still have to be manually cleaned.

>>4452643
Why Sony? I get it's better than Fuji but it's second worst of all lol. Even MFT would be better. Nikon, Panasonic, Sigma, Pentax, even Canon are better.

>>4452646
That's a very interesting tip. So far the rare times when I shoot ECN-2 I just take it to a lab. Do you use ECN-2 chemistry or crossprocess?

This could have been a nice comfy photo thread and look at what trip fags do to it. Why does it have to be like this?

>>4452647
I must confess I haven't researched too much about this and maybe you're completely right. It just seems from the scans I've seen, Sony does a great job while having FF sensors available for relatively cheap (e.g., A7III). I'll definitely do more research once I decide to upgrade my scan setup, though.

>>4452647
Dear god do you ever stop being a dishonest brandfag and take a photo? are you posting from jail? are you bedridden?

>>4452643
Fuji worms are not an issue with fuji, they are an issue with cheap raw developers. Try capture one, or darktable/ansel/rawtherapee with markestein 3-pass demosaicing. If you have to settle for lightroom the enhance feature deworms your images. You don't need to replace your camera over a sharpening artefact.

Also, for de-dusting get an anti-static brush or wet mount your negs (huge PITA and touchy about the glass used)

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>>4452633
>an Herod
>33 get
Mason get ye gone

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>>4452649
I always get cine film developed in ECN-2, but I send it a reputable lab that does dip and dunk.

Still, it's near impossible to remove 100% of the remjet. There's always at least some spec left. I can't wait until remjet is gone and AHU cine film becomes the norm.

>>4452654
I really like the workflow of NLP, but I'll try what you said, thanks for the tip.

Also, I had no idea anti-static brushes existed. I'll look into it now. Thanks.

Following is a picture of my DIY scan setup (ever since I've replaced the small ballhead for an actual good one)

>>4452661
I use a more primitive approach to scanning, slide duplicator.

>>4452664
You don't have photos to scan

>>4452594
>Nokton 50mm f.1.5 II
One of my favorite 50's I've ever used, so tiny, so velvety smooth
Just sold my 50 f2 apo because I always just got for the nokton

>>4452651
attention is what they crave. hide ignore and enjoy your day

>>4452676
Man, I debated forever between the Nokton 1.5 II and the APO-Lanthar.

I'm now so glad I went with the Nokton. This thing is basically 99% of a Summilux, such an excellent lens.

After the M3, I realized I really like Leica rangefinders and at some point I will try to afford a M6 or even an MP, but I definitely don't feel the lust after Leica glass anymore after this one.

I'll gladly rock a M6/MP with all Voigtlander glass whenever I have the chance.

>>4452689
My favourite lens I've ever owned is my 50 summicron but holy fuck the Voigtlander and Thypoch lines don't make me crave anything else from Leica, I'm more than happy to use them for the bulk of my lenses.

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>>4452689
give the m5 a chance, it's the redheaded stepchild and i like it more than my m3/4-2 honestly. bonus is that it tends to be much cheaper lol. negative is that less parts and less people willing to repair if anything should go wrong. never used an M6 cause i aint a rich boy like that so i don't know how it compares to that one desu. but as you say ultimately the glass makes more difference than the body.
>picrel is a shitphoto but its that or be a nophoto

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>>4452710
That looks great. When the opportunity arises I'll definitely consider the M5, same as I'm also currently considering the M4-P.

I just need a good rangefinder viewfinder that can get me good framelines for 28mm. If that's met, I can don't care for in-body metering. I'm fine currently metering with my Hedeco lightmeter.

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>>4452716
that meter looks pretty slick, but pricey compared to many of the other voigtlaender clones and such. i got a reveni one only because i sniped it on ebay for like 15 bucks (i'm sure that seller was seething but he listed low no reserve). But i don't love it, it's small and works but even with all the buttons operation is clunky. looking to get a better one. or maybe a spot meter.
my camera's meter works but i have tto buy one of those battery adapter things.

>>4452594
>How's this place doing?
Bad lol.
The colours on these are nice. How bad is it to develop vision3? I heard it's hard to get now anyway.

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>>4452718
Yeah, there's pretty much no option for meter unless you go super clunky. The Hedeco is the smallest and honestly it's pretty accurate. But it comes with a cost.

The Hedeco has a few ergonomics problems but the owner solved them all with free 3d printed files and so far I have no complaints.

I'd love a M6 with a working meter or even just a plain modern M-P, but that's a few years away.

>>4452719
Thanks. In the analog color world, Rerolled Vision3 is currently pretty much the standard nowadays. Twice as cheap as even Kodak Gold or Ultramax with over twice the performance.

I can't develop it myself, though, so I do everything but the development. Worth the extra cost considering the whole effort that goes taking off remjet. Once the AHU films hit market, I'll probably get my own kit and start cross developing in C-41, doesn't seem to lose that much compared to ECN-2.

>>4452721
Fuck that's pretty. I have an M6 but I've been lusting after an M3 or an M2 lately.

>>4452735
If you're shooting 50mm, nothing will ever compare to the experience of 50mm on the M3. That huge magnification viewfinder is really something else that in 20 years of experience I have'nt found anywhere else.

For shallower focal lengths, yeah, you can forget about it. I would personally classify the M3 as the best 50mm camera to has ever been manufactured.

I still want to shoot other shallower focal lengths, though.

>>4452741
>If you're shooting 50mm, nothing will ever compare to the experience of 50mm on the M3. That huge magnification viewfinder is really something else that in 20 years of experience I have'nt found anywhere else.
That's what I keep hearing, and I'd like the experiencence. Plus they're fucking gorgeous to boot.

>>4452651
i dont' understand how people still get flummoxed by tripfags when the website literally has a built in feature to hide each of their respective posts. they are so easy to deal with.
it's the anon shitposters who you need to watch out for

>>4452793
>anklebiter
>nu-cANON is actually fe2fucker evading his ban
It all makes sense now

>>4453081
Cold. Try again.

>>4453089
Cold like Sweden even in sommar?

>>4453081
>fe2fucker evading his ban
I figured he was just leaving this place after being shit on constantly

>>4453151
this , i woudn't expect one of the few good posters to catch a ban

>>4453249
You'd be shocked.
>>4453151
He openly stated he got banned for calling out the engagement bait shill threads in his last post as fe2fucker.

>>4452594
why are you taking photos of people's backs? Nice compositions and colors but you are still a coward like newfags even after 15 years.

Go face people you coward.

>>4453290
>why don't you walk up to people several hundred meters away and tell them to look at you while you take your landscape photo
Are you full-time or part-time at the retard mill?

>>4453293
You have to work your way around it. Stop making excuses and have the balls to take photos of people from front.

>>4453293
>Tell them
Just shout "HOLY FUCK, ITS JOE BIDEN! CAN I HAVE YOUR AUTOGRAPH?"

Guaranteed looks

I enjoy these photos, OP.

Please post more
I hope you came prepared for the arguhomos

>>4452594
good start of a thread op, but alas you mentioned GEAR so the gearfags derailed it
i hope you post more

>>4452631
No you don't. Nobody believes you. Your entire posting history consists of talking shit, trying to emulate other trips because you think they are cool, and trying to convince people that you take photos without posting any.

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From latest roll, also Vision3 250D.

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Nigga actually spent fuckin Leica M3 money and ponied up for the newer better Nokton, went through all the bullshit of shooting cinema film and getting the Remjet backing off just to take snapshits of the backs of people's heads while he was on vacation and scan them in with a shitty Fuji camera designed to mimic the very Leica he is shooting, fuck sakes dude.

Masters of photography shot on the equipment you have, there was a time I would have blown 50 black dudes in an alleyway and given myself AIDS to put a roll through an M3, and you wasted it on uninteresting vacation snapshits I could have done on a fuckin cellphone.

You were here 15 years ago during some of the best times on /p/, we had PhotoshopR and Alex who taught people how to edit photos in LR and PS, so much knowledge was dropped here 15 years ago and you didn't learn anything. We had Alphon who would shred everyone's threads and then go back and show you how to be better and where you could have done differently. You were here during the golden years before it got invaded with Dollar Tree trolls.

I hope you at least had fun.

>>4455324
just goes to show you, it's the classic "money can't buy talent".

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>>4455324
Surprisingly nice bait.

Anyway, here's my segue to some to a roll from a few weeks ago. This time on 500T.

And yeah, I know the rebate is corny/distracting, whatever. But I find them also sometimes fun, and I like having fun with my photography :)

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>>4455339
Last one.

>>4455341

This one is actually cool and the backlighting is nice on it

>>4452596
>mengão shirt
Based and urubu pilled

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Gotta admit I'm quite happy about this one from my latest roll of 50D.

I have a few more from the same roll if anyone's interested.

>>4456850
stock colours or you work on it a bit? looks very comfy.

>>4456856
I always work on the colors a little bit on NLP, but only small corrections to fix shadow/highlight/mids tints that the conversion may have picked up wrong.

I don't go through actual Lightroom or Photoshop controls for anything color or exposure related.

The colors on 50D (and 250D to some lesser extent) are just absolutely phenomenal 90% of the time with the auto-conversion.

I don't miss Portra one bit ever since I switched to cine films.

These are really nice man. Good shit.
What's your process for developing the stuff?

>>4455324
lol. I left here around the same time as OP and pop back in once a year or so, and often see your name. Kinda sad man. Everyone else has moved on and you're still here just talking gear, as if the camera means jack shit when shooting film. Pretty much everyone that was here 15 years ago has probably had (and sold) a Leica since then.

>>4457244

Camera doesn't mean jack shit, but if you're going to take snapshits, get a snapshit camera and save your Leica money for travel and cool experiences. I guess reading comprehension is above you, next time I'll sound it out for you so your dumb ass can understand it.

>>4457244
>Pretty much everyone that was here 15 years ago has probably had (and sold) a Leica since then.
I was here 15 years ago and have bought two Leicas lel

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>>4452594
>How's this place doing?
Every couple of years I decide to give it another go, and it always ends with the realisation that the 3-4 insufferable spammers who made the board shit have been replaced with 3-4 fresh insufferable unemployed faggots who are dedicating hours every day to forcing a new unfunny meme. It's all so tiresome

>>4457335
>3-4 fresh insufferable unemployed faggots who are dedicating hours every day to forcing a new unfunny meme. It's all so tiresome
time is a flat circle. this year its doghair, next year, who knows.

>>4457249
lol you didn't once mention using his money on other things, you just said boo hoo I'm angry and poor and don't have a leica while you're doing everything I wish I could.
can't believe you're still here after 15 years and still this pathetic. kinda sad man, did you ever take a break from this site?

>>4457244
>Kinda sad man. Everyone else has moved on and you're still here just talking gear,
Go back faggot, nobody cares. At least Sugar is still with us. A true veteran of this board.

>Good shit.
Congratulations on still being retarded. Your taste sucks dick.

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>>4457249
> if you're going to take snapshits, get a snapshit camera and save your Leica money for travel and cool experiences
>Translation:
>Stop using nice gear I can't afford on ordinary photos! STOP ACTING LIKE OWNING A LEICA ISNT A BIG DEAL! >:(
What's wrong trucker fucker? Salty you got no money left after buying a literal mountain of nikon ewaste?

Owning a leica isn't a big deal. It's just a camera. Cameras are not awarded by the communist party. All cameras are luxury toys purchased with accumulated capital. If you flip your shit because a camera is expensive due to large demand and limited supply, that's your problem, not anyone elses. Stop oozing envy and be happy with what you have or try succeeding in life so you can afford what you actually want instead of a mountain of embarrassing nikon blobs.

>>4457362
u mad bb

>>4457365
ur a plebbit faggit

>>4457335
There's still a little good, and people who consistently contribute their efforts. It's unfortunate that it is drowned out by the people that truly hate photography. 4chan in general has lost a lot of traffic and you can really feel it on the slower boards.

>>4457338
Obsessed.

>>4457401
>Obsessed
Nah, I was actually talking about you and anon understood me perfectly. It doesn't matter how funny you think you are, if you're posting shit that isn't photography more than like 5 times a day, you're being a nuisance

>>4457424
Takes two to tango, bro. There is no virtue on either side, but at least I try to post mostly quality photos. Lots of people cry and scream about me and my work, but I rarely see anything more than low IQ crab bucket bullshit from them. Doghair has been said over 250 times since the inception of the name if you check the archives. I just want to talk about photography, mine and others work and share my work with other people that enjoy the hobby, but there are obsessed individuals that bring me up for no apparent reason... Just like you did.

>>4457451
this is the "kicked out of 109 countries, those countries must be the issue" problem and he just doesn't get it.

>>4457270
Same lol
>>4457338
I, corgifag, came back in late 21 (after being mostly active like 09-12) so I'm sure my time is running out

>>4457452
That is complete and utter bullshit. Go look in the previous fgt and youll see what Im talking about. I mainly mind my own business posting a photo or two a day in fgt. My work is roughly as good as the average poster, and yet I receive significantly more bullshit from a couple obsessed losers that have never posted a single photograph on /p/. Now Im not saying Im a victim because Im not. If you paid attention as well as I did you would know this to be a fact.
I am amused by it mostly, but it is dissapointing that it seriously gets in the way of actual discussion about photography.

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Yawn, you people really seem to enjoy being angry...

Anyway, here's some more from my last 50D roll. The colors and sharpness of this stock are simply breathtaking imo.

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>>4457751
Last one for a while. I have a buttload of film I have yet to get developed and scanned that I've been procrastinating on.

>>4457747
Based and deserving of a leica

>>4457458
Cringe narcissist weirdo

>>4457767
>rent free

latest batch is much better in composition plus lacks the awful artifact texture of the first batch.

>>4457747
nice
>>4457749
feels like you should have shifted to the left and forward to put the foreground bin over on the right of the right post, mirroring the hut to the left of the left post. would also have put the kids closer to center between the posts. nice light and pretty good frame nonetheless

>>4457805
Hey, thanks! I feel good for your acknowledgment for my scanning improvements, I also definitely feel I've gotten better at avoiding the awful fuji worms from my first scans.

I'm admittedly still a novice in self-scanning.

Appreciate the composition tips for #3, I would've definitely have done that if tilting ever so slightly lef - like you suggested - wouldn't have added very distracting elements I just barely managed to crop wih my composition.

>>4457752
>>4457749

Outstanding, much improved. The scan looks much better on this one than your others.

>>4457747

This one is much better than the others.

>>4458011
Appreciate it, man. As I mentioned, self-scanning is still a skill I've only start to practice recently so I still have ways go to, which is honestly something that excites me. I do feel satisfaction out of the fact that you noticed improvements, thanks.

>This one is much better than the others.

I agree, that's my favorie of the bunch. I actually talked to that fisherman for over 30 minutes (while I took that pic) and he mentioned his late sister was a photographer and he mentioned he had a bunch of old analog cameras from here I should check out.

I went there just last, and while the stuff he had was great in theory (a Nikon F3 FM with 35, 50 and 105 + a Olympus OM-1 with a couple lenses), ultimately the stuff was in such bad condition it can only be used for parts, and also all the lenses had the most amount of fungus I've ever seen in any lenses.

Still a great story and social connection to make out of a day street shooting.

>>4458276
Jfc, I butchered the fuck out of that post. Sorry for not proofreading, I'm quite high righ now.

>>4458276
>FM
*HP

>>4458276

My scanning setup is a D800 with one of those Nikon slide scanning attachments on the end. 36mp gives me a ton of scalability and with a manual focus Nikkor 55/2.8 there's no fucking around with focus or anything just set it and forget it.

Might be something to think about.

>>4458316
I mean, a D800 is a full-frame camera compared wih my Fuji XT-4 which not only is an APS-C camera, but it also suffers from the god-awful Fuji Worms algorithm or whatever the hell it is.

Whenever I have the chance I'll definitely swap to a full frame (DSLR or mirrorless) camera, that's for sure.

It's just I can't seem myself spending money on digital equipment right now when that budget could go towards film or other analog gear.

>>4458320
>god-awful Fuji Worms algorithm
Just shoot RAW for scanning

>>4458320
>>4458323
>Fuji Worms algorithm
i don't have firsthand knowledge on this but i've heard that it's fuji raws going specifically through lightroom that can produce worm artifacts. apparently captureone lacks this issue
>>4457808
no problem,. keep up the good work

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>>4458323
I hate this website.

>>4458325
lightroom is on the same level of worms as c1 is nowadays. use irident xtransformer, dont use the native sharpening - photoshops smart sharpen works better

>>4458325
The Fuji worms are strictly a sharpening thing
You can minimize significantly it by simply not using adobe default sharpening
It goes away entirely simply by using LR's enhance feature
It also isn't as present in other software sharpening defaults
>>4458331
If you're still getting worms then, you are doing something wrong, or it's not actually worms you are having an issue with

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>>4458414
Picrel is Lightroom defaults vs LR enhance with defaults
This was also years ago things are better yet
I use to do Iridient to LR, but hasn't really been needed in many years

>>4458415
reminiscent of phone photos

>>4458320
a plustek is like 200 bucks

>>4458414
Worms even show up in Fuji SOOC JPEGs, fujislug

>>4458529
Another retard pointless comment

>>4458529
Smart and pointed comment. Thanks for the contribution, tripfriend.

Ignore the haters op. This place is not really a place to share actual opinions and images.

I like pretty much all the shots. A lot of them do look a bit like just random holiday shots, but they remind me of when my family would look at old projector photos for birthdays.

One of my friends recently bought a Leica M6 after having the M11 for a bit. I wish I wasn't a broke and could afford stuff like that too.

>>4458679
You too also have zero reading comprehension

>>4458679
Youve got excellent reading comprehension.

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>>4455341
Some very nice depth rendering from that Nokton. I have the 50/1.2 myself and it's excellent adapted to digital. If I were shooting with an M body, the 50/1.5 would definitely be a top choice.

>>4458681
Thank you, appreciate it.

I just can't stand SLRs anymore (and I have an amazing Nikon FM2) after the Leica. I'm no fanboy but the rangefinder is so nice to use, and everything just operates so smoothly.

I have in my future plans to get a non-ttl M6 as well, and perhaps after that a new M-P.

I do miss shooting 35mm.

Also, I find it kinda funny how some people here are assuming I'm on vacation since these are literally just on my hometown. All these photos were taken 5-10 minutes from my flat. I just live here.

>>4459003
That Nokton is insane. I read many reviews but was still damn impressed by it.

I do have a kinda beaten up Summarit 50 1.5 for times when I want to go the extreme opposite direction, though I get myself going for the Nokton 95% of the time.

>>4459552
No hate is warranted for a film leica. Film leicas make sense.

If you are to shoot film, leicas are the only cameras for which replacement parts are still being made, repair techs are still being trained, and replacement lenses in the mount are still being produced (by 3rd parties even).

They're also actually better made than their more expensive digital shit.

>>4455324
>Leica M3
You're still mald that you don't own a real Leica? LMAO

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>>4460413

No but I did get a Leica M3 without the Red Dot Tax(tm)

>>4452594
Love this photo, great work!

>>4460439
i dont understand your salt because one, leicas are for the long haul and have a stock of parts that will be there long after the last gear/spring in a zorki snaps and the last soviet lens is unusably moldy, and two, they're not even that expensive and if you sold every piece of gear you do not genuinely need and have to force yourself to use, you could have one good film camera for life.

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>>4460459

That's a Canon 7s, I gave up on Soviet rangefinders. It's not salt, Leica M cameras are fuckin dope. The Canon 7 does the same thing and costs about 300 bucks and you don't need to spend out the ass for M-mount glass. It's got a huge bright VF that is on par with the M3 and I can change framelines for 35, 50 85/100 and 135 and it's parallax-correcting too. You can get away with 28 if you count the very edge of the VF. The meter on mine is also dead-nuts calibrated and works very well.

Soviet lenses are good though, as long as you find a good copy made during the Khruschev years. I will admit, with what I spent finding a good copy of each loens I probably could have just bought an M3 and been done with it. I went through 3 85/2's to find a good one and I still had to open it up to make it perfect. Most of the rare stuff I got from Fedka and that was where I found my good 85.

Most of the time they just need grease which isn't hard. I have a Leica IIIb system too with a full set of Leitz lenses, I went with the 7s because I could keep my fully-sorted KMZ set with lenses from 20 to 135 and just put a better camera body behind them. The IIIb is nice too and with the 35 and 50 I can fit it in my pocket.

Besides, why spend the money for a Leica when these exist, which are German, and have *very good* Schenider and Rodenstock lenses.

>>4460491
OP here. I'm really glad you're happy with your soviet options but what you said only made me even more glad I went for a Leica in the first place.