I’m about to glaze over the fact that though the Redux has gone really well, 50/50 has still not even got through it’s first roll… actually, I won’t glaze over it, I’ll just blame it on this instead:

Yep… got me a Leica!

Now, before you ask what relative or organ I sold to afford one, I should explain; it’s not a real Leica. Based on a Minolta and sporting a “Made in Japan” imprint on the base, I have to concede that it’s a cheap – very cheap – way to wear the Red Dot while I’m out and about with a camera… but who cares, it looked like a fun camera, my ultimate downfall!

Mentioned in the comments of a post on The Online Photographer and it’s future in my camera collection inevitable once the site’s most wise host, Mike Johnston, had confirmed it’s coolness, I immediately Googled it with eBay already loading in the next tab. As luck would have it – sometimes “luck” like this is the sole reason I have no spare money – there was one floating around in the US on a Buy It Now, and… well, you can guess. It only arrived a few days ago but the impatience and rubbish weather in the meantime lay at the heart of zero 50/50 production and now I have even more problems as I promised one camera and one lens for that exercise and actually have two cameras loaded with film, both with different focal lengths! Argh!

I guess you should take that as official notice that 50/50 is dead… perhaps I can replace it with 40/80, the two focal lengths on the Leica thanks to an awesomely 80s style motorised teleconverter? (The way the viewfinder magnifies from 40 to 80mm is exactly how you’d imagine the zoom on the Terminator’s eye working I swear!)