I am having a lot of fun with my old Sears TLS film SLR I bought from a friend for a song. Going back to an all manual, do everything for yourself
film camera with absolutely no automation has been a refreshing break from the menu saturated, automatic, computer controlled everything
digital cameras I have been using. It's put the fun and romance back into photography for me. The only negative, so far, is discovering how hard it is for these old eyes to focus on the viewing screen of a manual focus film SLR - I am definitely getting older. The solution? My dream or, perhaps I should say, fantasy, is to pick up a
Leica MP camera, since the viewfinder in a rangefinder camera is brighter and easier to focus. Of course, a Leica M camera, in any model, is not a wildlife camera, but I have been more interested, of late, in a scenery camera or street camera and don't really need the long telephotos. Did I mention that Leica M lenses are basically as expensive as the already horrendously expensive
Leica M8.2 camera or Leica MP camera body? Okay, maybe I should split this into two fantasies, one for the
Leica camera body and one for the Leica lens or lenses. Okay, three
fantasies, since each Leica lens is expensive enough for its own fantasy.
