Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/28

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Bokeh controversy
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 13:14:53 -0800
References: <NBBBIDNIGLFOKNLJCPLHGEANFAAA.danh@selectsa.com>

Dan Honemann wrote:
> 
> > This was the lens i got with my first Hasselblad in 1979.
> > Didn't get any other lens for the system untill 83, the year the
> > CF's were introduced.
> > The 80 and 50 a standard configuration for the time.
> > If it was now I"d get the awsome inspirational 120 macro followed
> > by the 180. Instead of the 50 the 60.
> 
> Mark,
> 
> Why _not_ the 50?  That would be one of my first choices, after the 80 and
> the 120.
> 
> Dan (considering taking advantage of the 501 kit deal, but spending too much
> on M lenses (on topic) instead)

For interiors maybe but for shots of people in tight places it makes them look
short if they are full length (head to toe) and that doesn't wash. 
In 35mm format it's like the stuff you could veer off doing with a 28 that you
can do with a 35.
In the end we'd need both but my bucks seen to all be going to the Leica foundation!!

mark :) rabiner

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In reply to: Message from "Dan Honemann" <danh@selectsa.com> (RE: [Leica] Bokeh controversy)