Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] R Superwide Questions
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 15:51:52 -0500

At 01:45 PM 9/1/99 -0400, you wrote:
>My favorite is
>the 21/4 because it is smaller than the older 19 and provides wonderful
>pictures.

It's a great lens, made by Schneider, but it's slow aperture makes using 
the viewfinder a chore. With that wide a lens, it's hard to focus fast with 
the viewfinder being so dark, and the subjects being so small relatively 
speaking.

Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO

http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color. 
- -William Albert Allard, "The Photographic Essay"