Re: Advice on a trade

[Chris Fortunko <fortunko@boulder.nist.gov>]

Ben,

You might also look at something like a 90mm or 135mm lens on a Bellows II
adapter, if you insist on a Leica lens. Using the 50mm DR lens might not
give you the results you expect. For example, the nose will be out of
proportion.

In fact, you can get a 135mm Elmar for you camera and get the result you
desire at relatively low cost in $.

The Nikon F3HP camera is very fine and I have no problem with it. However, I
agree with Marc that it is a different system. In my opinion, one should
learn to get the maximum out of one system. 

Of course, if 35mm does not meet all of your needs, then you should consider
a different format. For example, why not an 8by10 with an appropriate lens.

I have often considered buying a Nikon F3HP, but decided against it.
Discipline is good in photography and in general.

Chris


At 12:44 PM 12/23/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Ben
>
>My point can hardly be construed, even by the most paranoid, as a 'flogging'.  
>
>Your initial post was of taking photographs of the face AND hands of your
>(age-unspecified) child;  I properly suggested it was an infant.  Your
>figures are that you child possess a face 6" wide and your 90mm lens will
>cover, at its closest, 8.9".  Thus, it strikes me that, with the hands
>included, the 90mm will fill your needs perfectly.
>
>You NOW, in your second missive, throw in a refusal to crop and a wish to
>photograph just one eye.  I agree with your suggestion that a Leica M will
>not fit your needs unless you used a 50mm NF/DR Summicron or a SOOKY or the
>like.
>
>As to cumbersome, I find all SLR's cumbersome, and I would find it
>especially annoying to have to use TWO different systems.  But you might not
>find it so.
>
>Marc
>
>msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
>Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
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