Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:13 AM 09/04/2001 -0700, Dante wrote: >http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dante/paw/settimana.html > >[snip] >There is only one picture of any merit. Can you tell me which? >[snip] >There are a couple indicating to me that a clean 50/1.4 Nikkor-SC is a >world-beater. Dante: I like all three 50/1.4 pictures. But "Olga on Friday night" is the real eye-grabber. Nice shot! If you work on "Olga" further, I'd go for some real rich, deep black tones in the shadow area of the dress at lower left. I might also crop out the gray stripe at the extreme left edge of the picture. My perfect-glass 50/1.4 Nikkor SC is at DAG's having a CLA. Our Northwest so-called summer is about to end, so I hope the Nikkor comes back home soon. I'm looking forward to shooting with it wide open. Those photos remind me that it's nothing to be ashamed of, even if it isn't made by Leica. An article on the LHSA site on the collapsible 50mm Summicron compares that lens to the the 50/1.4 Nikkor, and mentions a full article about the Nikkor from the 1996 "Viewfinder" #2. Would you (or anyone else on the list) have this article? I'd like to read it. - --Peter Klein Seattle