> I love my OM, but I want something with spot metering. I've been
> lookingat the OM4Ti used, new ones are rediculously priced.
There's always the OM2S as a cheaper way to get spot metering; it's just
single-spot rather than the OM4's sophisticated stuff, but it does the job
for me very nicely.
> He said of the 900, he has about 11-13 that are
> amazing. He says it's a statistics game, shoot 900 and get a good 10%
> that you like. I'm inclined to agree, except that almost means "digital
> gives you the freedom to shoot haphazardly" and not stop and
> think about what you are doing.
Depends on what you want to do. Personally, I love the digital for when I
don't _want_ to stop and think about what I'm doing, and when I just want to
record events rather than "make images" -- taking it mountainbiking,
snapshots while wandering around, whatever.
> From what I've read, you get the same about of
> "good" pics from all the formats
It's a matter of what counts as a "good" picture. I took three rolls of the
building being knocked down for my TOPE entry, and liked one of them -- I
took two rolls of ballooning, and liked about half of them..
On a rather higher level, I think the relative importance of subject vs
technique makes a _big_ difference here. I have hundreds of shots of flower
macro stuff, and in that case, it's all about taking the right shot, rather
than finding the right flower. (okay, the flower does help, but you get the
idea).
Taking, say, candid shots at a party, it's more likely that you want to
record the people that were there, in which case the subject is the most
important thing, and composition/technique can be less important -- so you
have more chances of getting "good" pictures.
> or do I just say screw it, and go medium format??
Just to play with MF, you can pick up an old TLR Rolleiflex / YashicaMat
for a couple of hundred dollars and see how you get on -- it'll give you a
chance to see how you like the new enlarged film format, and you may well
decide you don't need to buy an entire kit after all.
-- dan
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