Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Not in this country. But in Europe they are used for delivery as well as Taxi vehicles. Bruce S. - -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Kachadurian <kach@freeway.net> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Saturday, August 01, 1998 11:43 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Why we use Leica (was potential image quality) >Harrison: > >I still think that one reason more newspaper guys don't shoot Leica is the >money. At least in Michigan, the pay at the bottom rung, and even up to >somewhere in the middle is pretty poor. If your paper has big glass that >you can use, you get a camera to match it, then as you move around, you >build a system around what you already had. > I shot Nikon for years and only could really afford to even change systems >to Canon when I went freelance and started to build my business. Selling my >Nikon ang going to Canon cost $2000-$3000, plunking down $5000 to $8000 for >a decent Leica system would have been out of the question. > >You don't see a lot of delivery businesses driving Mercedes. > >Tom > > At 09:49 PM 7/31/98 -0700, you wrote: >>Thomas Kachadurian wrote: >> >>> But the Leica images looked like >>> they were made in a normally lit room, good shadow detail, backgrounds >>> that could be easily placed. The Canon images were obscured by contrast, >>> dim sides of faces became detailless blobs. >> >>This is what I have always noticed about the Leica galss. Where Nikon and >>Canon have dark (read no detail here) shadow areas and blown out highlights >>the Leica glass holds the detail. >> >>What made me first switch to Leica back in 1990 was a test I did using Nikon >>and Leica. I used the Nikon 300 2.8 and the Leica 280 2.8 and took chromes >>of my wife with our dog on a sunny spring day in Atlanta. The dog is >black and >>my wife was wearing a very bright outfit. In the Nikon photos the dog was >>black. In the Leica photos the dog was black also, BUT there was detail in >his >>fur. The dog was in the shadow side of the photo so I was not expecting much >>detail and when I saw this I was blown away. I also repeated the same test >>using the 1.4 converters on both lenses and the Leica STILL held detail in >the >>shadow areas. Same photographer same film same processing and exposures. >>Only difference was the glass. >> >>As far as why don't more pros shoot Leica....well I would wager that when >you >>get into the magazine field you will find more of us using the Leicas than >the >>newspaper and wire guys because 1) we shoot Chrome and the difference is >>important there. 2) in most cases the increased quality will show up in >better >>printing. >> >> >> >> >>Harrison McClary >>http://people.delphi.com/hmphoto >> >================================== >Thomas Kachadurian >WEB PAGE: http://members.aol.com/kachaduria