Re: Black and White, again...

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> "Dudley Hanks" <hanks.dudley@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "William Black" <william.black@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Well I looked at the digital stuff for decent black and white
photography
>>> on an unobtrusive digital camera.
>>> 
>>> I've come up with a couple of possibilities:
>>> 
>>> The Cannon Powershot G9,  which seems to do everything I want, 
although
>>> I'm not too sure how accessible the manual controls are,  and the
>>> Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX2.
>>> 
>>> Both are somewhere around the high end of my budget.
>>> 
>>> Any comments?
>>> 
>>> Because I can still feel the idea of buying a new Voigtlander
rangefinder
>>> tugging at me...
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> William Black
>>> 


I recently dug out an old Olympus XA I had in a cupboard for the last 8
years, I remember it as being broken and I was going to bin it so I wound
the winder and fired the shutter and it actually worked. Nest day I put a
roll of ****tra in it and tested it, it is absolutely fantastic, the lens
is
very sharp and it has manual focusing (rangefinder), it is very small and
people disregard it as a toy, perfect. You can pick up a good one on eBay
for £50, boxed. Stick a roll of Ilford XP2 in it and your laughing.