Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I was downtown on the 1st of this year, trying to take pictures of Columbus that represent, or rather convey, how I see the place. I brought three cameras and three lenses: It was bitterly cold (though not as bad as the night before!) and I was in no mood to swap lenses. Changing film was bad enough. Anyway, I shot with a Bessa-L with a 25mm/4, an M2 with a 50mm/2, and an R6 with a 200mm/4. Given these lenses, I fully expected to shoot mostly with the 50mm and only occasionally haul out one of the others for the odd exaggeration shot. I was wrong. I used the 25mm most of all, the 50mm least. To my surprise, I found that when taking pictures with the 25mm (always trying to get closer, closer, closer) thinking about how to juxtapose foreground and background to get the effect I wanted, I would suddenly see a 200mm shot. Sure enough, bag the Bessa-L, find a suitable vantage point, bring out the R6, and there was a 200mm shot (hopefully I'll get some of these online for "week 1" next Monday to clarify). This got me thinking: Maybe Ted's 15mm/400mm photo project isn't as mad as it initially seems. I know the classic is 35/90, or maybe 35/50/90, but I found that having a wider spread was actually useful and more inspiring. M. - -- Martin Howard | "We can't make mistakes like that on our Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | own. We need computers to help us." email: howard.390@osu.edu | -- A pharmacologist on computerization www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +-------------------------------------------