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>>58077 1. I don't think he'll be shooting when he's sneaking around. He'll be watching for insurgents trying to shoot him, in a different sense.
Normally, I hate mirror clank, hate, hate, hate it, but a DSLR is his only real option.
2. I don't think he'll be able to develop the photographs, first of all.
Second, he doesn't seem like he has much photographic experience but wants to learn. Digital is ideal for that; if you hand someone a Leica M, especially a film one before the M7, with no knowledge of the technical side of photography, they'll be lost. The M8, of course, is digital, and the M7 is an electronic camera except at two shutter speeds.
>You'll be in the middle of a desert, power might be impossible to get or restricted to strategic services.
I have a feeling he'll probably be in a barracks, not in some tent somewhere. I understand soldiers are allowed to hook up X-Boxes in their barracks and go on the computer and everything. OP will have no problem charging a digital camera.
Of course a completely mechanical film camera would be more reliable, but that won't suit the OP.
As far as the specific suggestion of a Leica rangefinder, two things:
1. The M3 is iconic for its breakthrough. Later Leica models were actually improvements, with the exception, I've heard, of the M5.
2. I'm guessing OP doesn't have a Leica-sized budget. Leicas are expensive- even the MD, an M2 variant made without any viewfinder, is going for $789 from KEH right now.
If the OP decides to go film, a non-Leica rangefinder would make sense. But film makes almost no sense for the OP.
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