I know this is tangential to this thread, but at least it's on topic.
I was digging through some old saved articles. One was about Chris
Bonnington, who switched to OMs in the '70s. Another was about Don McCullin.
He used just a 28 and 135mm for most (possibly all) of his famous war
photography. He said that the more equipment you have the more choices you
have to make, which isn't necessarily a good thing. There was a small photo
of him on the set of a film for which he did the stills in the 1980s. He had
two OMs around his neck, and it looked like he was still using just the 28
and 135 Zuikos. If I have time I will post snippets from these two over the
weekend.
If it stops raining will be going out with just one or two lenses (the
weather & floods where I live have been the worst for over 50 years). I've
been using black & white more and more recently - my choice for handheld
work is HP5+ in ID-11 or DDX developer. Much as I love colour photography,
it is so satisfying to develop one's own negatives. I've been using a Stylus
Epic a lot, snapping things I like, and the relative lack of adjustments or
choice of focal lengths helps concentrate the mind. There is still something
very special about monochrome photography.
Simon E.
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