Re: [Leica] 50mm Summicron-M is an awesome lens

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

Robert;
The quizical look on the baby's face, while looking at your camera, seems to
say, "Gee, Daddy, is that gonna be mine someday?"
You better watch out :o}~
Dan
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Robert G. Stevens <robsteve@hfx.andara.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 1999 11:38 PM
Subject: [Leica] 50mm Summicron-M is an awesome lens


> I am sending this message again because the last link was wrong on the
> previous post.
>
> I have been using a 50mm Summicron lately for some happy snaps ,as Ted
> would call them, and I am very impressed with the quality of the pictures.
> They have a smoothness to them which is very pleasing.  My lens is a
> Canadian Made lens (ser 302201x), I think of the same formula as the
latest
> Summicron .  I have taken a few baby pictures with it at around F2 or so
> and find the results very pleasing.  A recent picture of our five month
old
> twenty pound (9 kg) baby is at the link below.
>
>
http://home.iSTAR.ca/~robsteve/photography/images/Gordon/Gordon-jun15-99.jpg
>
> The top two pictures on this page were with the 50mm Summicron and AGFA
> Potra 160 print film.  A nice lower contrast film that works great with
> Leica lenses.  The family portrait of me, Gordon, my Mother, and
> Grandmother were on this film as well using the R8, some studio flashes
and
> the 60mm Macro on an R8.  Metering was done with the built in flash meter
> and a gray card.  The pictures on the wall behind us are from my trip to
> Cuba, with my wife at a pool table and an old lady smoking a cigar.  Some
> day I will post this image to my web site.  All my prints of it are 11x14
> and my flatbed scanner will not handle that large.  The pictures of the
> Baptism itself were taken by a friend using a Nikon with fill flash.  The
> Nikon lenses just don't have the punch of the Leica M lenses.
>
> http://home.istar.ca/~robsteve/photography/gordon_francis_stevens-3.htm
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert
>
>
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