Okay so the Leica T is in the news...

[Godfrey]

... My preference for 3:2 comes maybe from my decades long background shooting film cameras (yes I am that old - had my first DSLR a Minolta SRT101 back in 1967 if I remember right). The other format preference is square, which comes from my time with Hasselblad V system
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I think I've got you beat by a year or two. First "real" (35mm) camera was my mom's Argus C3 in 1966, second real camera was a 1949 Rolleiflex Automat which my grandfather loaned me in '67 or '68. I re-acquired a Hasselblad system last year, and am delighted I did so.
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... Coming back to the GH4 - I need to handle one, but from what I can tell reading reviews this camera indeed comes close to the old Leica R camera ecosystem - even a bit smaller. And offering such advanced video capabilities (4k) is for sure a big plus.
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Times are really exciting!

It's funny. I have actually been feeling a bit jaded going into the camera shop lately. I mean, the equipment I have is so darn good there's little point to changing it, and all the reason to just using it.

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[scott kirkpatrick]

But responding to Godfrey's and ptomsu's reminiscences... I used a Miranda T, picked up in Japan in 1955 or 1956, for pictures in our high school yearbook (1959), and also had access to my Dad's Voigtlander folding 35mm camera, probably a Vitessa, the one with barn doors. The Argus C3 was very much in evidence then, but I don't recall ever using one. About 8 years later I got interested in photography again, and moved up to Nikon F, FTN and a Leica M2, which is still doing just fine. (The Fs are long gone.)

Thinking about what the T could do for me, I went out and ordered a Ricoh GR, for which I already have an excellent low-profile optical viewfinder from the GR-D series. I expect to use it traveling this summer.

scott