If your budget allows it, get a Leica M6 with a Summilux or a Noctilux
... pretty much fits all your requirements perfectly. There's no
faster lens than the 50mm/f1.0 Noctilux, and the camera can be easily
hand held at very slow shutter speeds. If you need slightly better
image quality, the Summilux (F1.4) would work. The M6 also has
something of a spot meter, albeit a big spot. Loading is pretty easy
once you get the hang of it - many Leica shooters can load 'em in the
dark. The shutter is virtually silent.
--
Shel Belinkoff
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Why should I use a meter? What if the darn thing broke on me
when I was out making a photograph? Then what would I do?"
Nicholas Wright wrote:
>
> I have somthing of a dilema. I need to get a quieter camera for some work
> that I'll be doing in the near future, and also for when I want to carry
> something other than the pz1p. The requirements that I have is that this
> camera be small and discreet, extremely quiet, easily loadable, and the
> viewfinder data must be able to be read in near dark. The last reason being
> the main reason my k1000 is not suited for what I'm looking for. So I've
> narrowed it down to three cameras and I'd appreciate any feedback from
> others that have more experience with these cameras. I would be using manual
> focus lenses on it, taking photos in near dark (ie- fire/candlelight). The
> three cameras that I'm looking at are;
>
> 1) ME Super... very small, very quiet. Don't like the buttons to change
> shutter speed, but I could get over it.
> 2) MX... prolly the closest thing I'll ever get to what I'm looking for, but
> haven't I seen somewhere that it's actually kindof loud?
> 3) zx5n... very quiet, and small. But how loud is the autorewind? and am I
> correct in saying that there is no way to override autorewind when you reach
> the end of the roll of film? Actually, the number one reason that I'm even
> considering this camera is because of the built in spot meter.
>
> Well, any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
>
> --
> Nick
>
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