Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]><Snip> > > the shot that persuaded me to ditch the 35/1.4 non-asph was on a london tube > train. There was a guy who looked EXACTLY like a corpse with a grinning > death's head. It was a wonderful shot but he was about 20' away from me. I > got the picture exactly (several times in fact) but when I pulled the film > out of the fix, he wasn't there. I mean, he was, but there just wasn't > enough detail in the face to make the picture 'read'. It would have been a > good picture if he had been sharp, but instead he was just this nice > romantic soft fuzzy glow. > > The problem was compounded by the fact that he was sitting under a light so > he was flaring out as well. > > on the ASPH it would have been a good picture. > -- > John Brownlow > John it sounds to me like you would have REALLY gotten the shot with a 50! ANY Leica 50!) But the Sumilux at the bottom of the list. Under the Elmar even. (but at the top of about any other list)! Mark Rabiner the die hard Portland, Oregon USA http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/