Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Through the chain link fence merrily! :-) using the 280 alone, with 1.4 or 2X and locking them together mounted to the 280. Just finished screening slides from the baseball game through the chain link fence and although I had seen very excellent slides shot by number 2 son at the Pan American Games summer '99, I was still skeptical of what my results would be. It's quite amazing, the images projected look like I was inside the fence, the 800 mm was very interesting as the pitcher cleanly separated from the extremely out of focus background.. The shortest lens I tried wide open was a 100 macro to see what the effect would be at 2.8, there didn't appear to be any noticeable "fence effect" as the images are crisp, colour saturation looks good. We used 100 SW and some 100 S A few rolls were pushed one stop (200) to allow for higher shutter speeds and they are great. So for what it's worth any of you shooting sports where you can't have access to the playing field just go long lens, wide open and be there! One point to keep in mind is, the farther you are away from the fence the more likely you'll find the "through the fence effect" showing up even if you're wide open. If possible, best position is right against the fence and the longer the lens the better. I see no reason why this wouldn't work with an M camera and 135, even if you're not looking through the lens as with the SLR, you shouldn't see the wire no matter where it is, but I'd try to keep the lens right in the middle of a diamond shaped hole of the fence mesh. Look at it this way, if you haven't tried it, now at least you know where to start. Have some fun. ted