Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]><Snip> >> larger format, say the 5x7, for a formal response. The book is a >> perspective of Vermont land and the people who care for it. It is >> history and the larger format may be the best way to go. >> > If I had only one camera, it would be the Leica...Peter Miller > > -- > > > > >I loved that cover shot for the Vermont People which is a squareÖ >The two heads >at the bottom. What bummed you out on squares? >You'd be able to back your Leica up with a Rolleiflex 2.8 F if you didn't have that detestation..Marc Rabiner Yes, the cover was shot with the Rolleiflex. I am not bummed out at the square format so much as that years ago I sold that Rollei 2.8 Planar. I miss the low angles and the bokeh is that what you call it? I believe the Planar was a 80mm. I use a 135mm Macro on the 6x7 Pentax which allows me to get closer to people. Pentax makes some good lens, particularly the 75mm. The 135mm is okay and serves the purpose. I have the old Pentax 6x7 and it is a bugger to focus and is a scary camera to shove into someone's face. The layout of the Plains book was horizontal so it could accomodate the 6x17 format. I have a tendency to fill the frame and I backed off with the Mamiya 6x6 so I could end up with a horizontal or a vertical, rather than a square, giving the designer more latitude in laying out the 9x12 pages. So in effect I was not utilizing the whole frame. The other day I was photographing a woman for the Vermont Farm Women book. I was shooting black and white with three Leica M6's, as I try to keep from changing lenses. Some pix screamed for color and I just didn't want to carry a Nikon. Got to thinking. Maybe that Contax with a zoom lens if they make one would be a good sort of point-and-shoot color camera. Peter Miller - -- Vermont People, People of the Great Plains, and The First Time I Saw Paris, books by Peter Miller, can be viewed at http://www.silverprintpress.com. Peter Miller's stock photography can be searched at http://www.yankeeimage.com.