dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

I do not. But I am always looking for an excellent condition M3 or M4 and a 50mm Summicron to go with it. My last was an M7 with the 50mm Summicron. Presently I am saving money for other things. One day I would love to have an M9. I think I could be very happy with that one. All it takes is $$$$.

Dennis

Odie-Jay Loc: Was Littleton, CO now Overland Park, KS

I have the T3i and the D3200. I cannot distinguish any difference in clarity when I do my part. Use both in programmed, shutter and aperture modes as well as sometimes manual and auto. I find that soft (not sharp) images are most often a lack of good technique on my part ie movement of camera or not using a tripod when I should have.

WereWolf1967 Loc: Knoxville, TN

I just sold my M9P, 50 series3 Summicron, 90 f/2 Summicron, 21 f/2.8 6 bit, 40 f/2 M-Rokkor and 135 3.4 APO.

I just couldn't get into a manual focus digital rangefinder. I love my "R-series" SLR's and my point and shoot digital Leicas. I especially love my Digilux 3 4/3rds with the 14~50 Vario Elmarit 2.8~3.5. That is a Moose of a camera & it feels great.

I'm a professional Roofing & Waterproofing Consultant so I travel all over the eastern half of the US. I pick up Leicas all the time. Let me know what you want & what your financial limits are and I'll look out for some equipment for you.

Right now, I have 54 cameras most are for my collections.

The money I got from the M9P & Lenses I got a DF black body with a 50 f/1.4 AFD Nikkor, 17~35 AFD Nikkor and a 80~400 AFD Nikkor. & change. The DF has a large learning curve. Even though I've shot Nikons since my first Nikon F Photomic T that I bought for myself while I was in Marine Corps Officers Basic in 1965. I still have it along with the 50 1.4 SC Nikkor lens. They made 3 tours in Vietnam in 66~67 & 68 albeit in the cockpit of my F-4 Phantom but they're in great shape considering. Even the meter works & is within 1/2 stop of my Gossen Ultra-Pro.

Togetherness-Leica D-Lux 4

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WereWolf1967 Loc: Knoxville, TN

Here's a Selfie with His Majesty "Spike" on my chair back.
Camera was a Nikon Coolpix L22

Selfie with His Majesty "Spike" on the back of my chair-Nikon L22 Coolpix

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dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Wow, you have quite a collection of cameras. I prefer having just a few but I sometimes lust for another. When/if I get some money saved I will let you know and maybe you could find something for me. I generally spend my time between fishing, hunting, collecting side by side shotguns and photography. Fishing is probably the cheapest hobby I have but I do have some coin wrapped up in a fly rod.

I was in Vietnam with HMM-265 from 1966 to the end of 1967 for 18 months. I would have liked to fly the CH-46 but nobody ever trained me as I was an E-4. I rode in the back hooked up to a Browning 50. Great helicopter and great gun. If you ever get a chance and the desire to read a good book, look for, "Bonnie Sue", written by one of our pilots, Marion Sturkey.

I saw my first Nikon F Photomic in 1964 when a friend brought one back from his tour in Vietnam. I loved it at first sight and bought one when I first got there. Since then I have tried other Nikons, Canon, Hassselblad, Mamiya TLR, Leica M and R, and others. All were great cameras but I stuck with Nikon through the years.

Semper Fi,

Dennis

WereWolf1967 Loc: Knoxville, TN

Ooh-Rah, Brother. I was with VMFA 542 at DaNang from May 1966 to November 66 when they rotated up to Iwakuni for O&R so I got transferred to VMFA 323 at Chu-Lai until Jan 67 when I had enough time to rotate up to MCAS Iwakuni, Japan. It was in late Jan 67 that I went up on a test flight in BuNo. 151410. We had just had techs from MacDonald/Douglas install newer J79 GE 15 engines in our Bird. Less smoke & 500 lbs per engine more thrust. Hey, a win-win huh?
NOPE. Test flight went great. Our bird looked funny on the flight line with no drop tanks or hard point racks. She was clean. We went up to try and break rivets. Everything went OK until we came in at FL350 for a TACAN 1 approach. Approach Control cleared us to the 38 NM DME fix, 184 radial Iwakuni TACAN. Once there, we were cleared for the TACAN approach with a GCA hand off approach.

All was great until we passed over station at 350 and then BOTH J-79s flamed out!!!
I was flying back seat that day and I put out the RAT and called Approach Control to cancel instruments and declare an emergency. I requested a flame-out approach to runway 01 and it was approved. We went on a wide downwind trying for an air start but No-Go. We went too wide to make the runway so the Tower lit the sea drome lanes for us in the inland sea 1 mile east of the base that the sea planes used.

At 3,000 ft. I command ejected us and I went first from the RIO position but everything went wrong that could and I went through the rear canopy with a malfunctioning firing Martin-Baker Mk 5 seat. The canopy was not blown but torn loose by my seat. I broke my left collarbone in 2 places, broke 3 ribs, cracked 3 more, broke my nose, my left index finger and for good luck, smacked my left knee on the way out.

We hit the water on January 27 th 1967 and nearly froze our asses off.
Iwakuni is just about the same latitude as Chicago. It was just like landing in Lake Michigan in January!!!.

My collar bone never healed properly and so I was relieved from combat flying. I got sent back to the States and re-trained as an ATC officer. I was re-assigned to MCAS Iwakuni as the Control Tower OIC for MATCU-60 (Marine Air Traffic Control Unit-60) for almost 2 years. I had a short stint as an ATC officer at Phu-Bai in 1968. That's where I got my second purple heart when During an NVA rocket attack, I was blown through the air. I still carry 5 pieces of shrapnel adjacent to my spine as a reminder.
My first Purple heart was in 1966 in DaNang while in the head shaving for my pre-flight briefing. I got winged in the right calf and 3 days later it got infected. Our flight surgeon examined me and asked when I got shot. I told him it was during an early morning nuisance attack. I got my first purple heart for getting shot in the "crapper". How humiliating.

CraigFair Loc: Santa Maria, CA.

All this reminiscing is all good but what happened to the OP.
""I would like to know if anyone owns a Canon and a Nikon"".
Craig

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Sorry. I thought that thread was done. I read somewhere that he had traded in his Canon for a new Nikon D810 and a 35-70 f2.8 lens with the other Trinity lenses on order.

WereWolf, we can touch base later. Craig is probably right and he is my Northern neighbor.

Dennis

WereWolf1967 Loc: Knoxville, TN

YEP,

I have & use both.

dickwilber Loc: Indiana (currently)

Many years ago, I was moving from a rangefinder to my first SLR. As it happened someone I saw regularly on weekends was doing exactly the same thing. He bought an all automatic (set the shutter speed and it picked aperture) while I bought an aperture preferred auto WITH the capability to shoot fully manual. As we compared our choices, I stated that the ability to shoot manual was an important consideration in my purchase. "Hmmph!!" He responded. "Do you think you know more than the camera?"

The correct answer was of course, "Yes!" But, that said, like you, I shoot aperture preferred auto 90% of the time. I shoot a lot of people, I'm a retired sports/event/wedding photographer where shooting aperture preferred auto IS the way to go. Often going from sun to shade, and shooting pretty quickly, the "matrix metering" on my Nikons is very dependable and accurate in nearly all conditions, allowing me to concentrate on composition, et al.

The ability to determine all the settings of your instrument, and more importantly, why, is required to become a competent photographer. But to stubbornly insist that you must make all those adjustments manually, means that you are missing some of the other nuances of your art.

romanticf16 Loc: Commerce Twp, MI

Your sister probably shoots jpeg and Nikon has great algorithms for that. If you shoot RAW , manually you have to set a proper color balance and sharpen prior to exporting your image. There is a learning curve for getting proper exposure and proper sharpening. You should be able to get similar results with your camera by mastering your workflow. OR, you can set your camera to record in jpeg with a setting like saturate and see how you like the result you get.