Re: Hans & Paris

["Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>]

Hans, visited your site; I am still a shade green with envy at your
proximity to such wonderful places. I am also glad you shared your visions,
and photos. It's the next best thing to going!
Dan
- -----Original Message-----
From: Hans Pahlen <hans@komvux.skola.mark.se>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Sunday, 23 November, 1997 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: Hans & Paris

>ALf, (sorry to hear about your arm)
>The 35 asph is a first quality lens. The problem was caused by the
>photographer...
>On a street scenery, when many objects (people) are part of the picture, it
>is difficult to get them all within reasonable focus, at least when using
>F/2,0. The only thing to do is to go closer and concentrate on one or two
>objects only, or to stop down the lens.
>Therefore the 50 mm lens was a better choice, as I from the very beginning
>was looking for the most interesting things in the picture, moved in closer
>and focused on that.
>Nothing was really blurred, I was just not calculating with the limited DOF
>on F/2,0, so some parts of the pictures were slightly out of focus. Using a
>SLR, I would have seen it in the finder, but not so with the M...
>But theoretically, I would have thought of it anyway, I was only so carried
>away by all nice things to photograph. Not all pictures with the 35 asph
>were bad. Buildings and such were crisp and fine, and also some shots of
>people when I moved in real close.
>It will take me 2 weeks to scan the slides, as my friends Agfa scanner had
>given up last Friday.
>/Hans
>
>>Hans & Paris:
>>Soem weeks ago, someone suggested to consider the 1.4/35 asph M Summilux
>>wide open as alternative to the f 1 of the Noctilux. Evidently you had
>>some blurred experiences when you tried something similar with your new
>>2/35 asph ? You Paris pix are nice.
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