I’m in the process of selling my Olympus Pen F - I haven’t used it hardly at all in quite a while, but that’s down to being busy in other areas like music, boat-building, oh yeah and work! I still have my trusty little Fuji X20 which incidentally I am going to build a custom power supply for as the stupidly tiny NP-50 batteries are about as useful as a screen door on a submarine. Found a power bank that measure the same width as the camera so will attach underneath like an old motor drive.
When I use the X20, there are 2 custom settings on the main dial on top which I have set to mono (C1) and colour (C2) with a few tweaks on the mono to boost contrast. I’ve always said that I like to carry a camera with me that I have to ’think’ in black and white with. It works for me. A camera devoted to mono would be right up my street, but with heavy expense elsewhere, ain’t no Leica on my horizon right now! Would I be interested in the Pentax? Possibly but I’m into a smaller form factor. Really, the Pen F is the perfect size and I shouldn’t be selling it but I want to fund an Irish bouzouki (like a mandolin with a long neck). I used the Pen F in the same way as the Fuji, with mono output (large/fine jpegs), except that being a mirrorless camera the viewfinder was then in monochrome - an interesting aspect - thinking in mono and actually ’seeing’ in mono. Not sure that it helps the cause or not. I really like an optical viewfinder for mono, so in theory the Pentax wins on that score. The Fuji X20 has an optical viewfinder. I suppose a Leica mono would be pretty good really - a lottery win for me tho! When the dust settles later this year I might pick up an X100 incarnation. I’ve always fancied one :-) I don’t use zooms (for stills) so that would be quite good I think. And when I did use the Pen F, my go-to lens was always the Voigtlander 15mm/4.5 (same angle of view as a 30mm on full-frame) so not far off the X100’s lens. Hey ho, all the gear and no idea! ;-) Hope everyone’s well Cotty On 13 Apr 2023, at 18:29, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I've been working with the Leica M10 Monochrom for about a year now. [snip] -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
