Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Chandos wrote: >>>> Vey cool lens, but I sold mine.<<<<< Thank you Chandos now I don't feel alone as I did the same with mine. It's a fine lens no doubt about it, just not my cuppa tea as a working lens. When I purchased mine early on it's arrival on the scene I shot a several rolls with it and was impressed, but not blown away, as it seemed to be not close enough or just too close. Not to mention eye clutter confusion in the M6 viewfinder when it was mounted, as I found I had to concentrate on the viewfinder to stay within the 75 markings more than what I was shooting and that's bad news! But I took it on assignment to Russia on a Chernobyl Children project about the kids and clean-up crews after the explosion of the nuclear power station. One should never ever take a new piece of gear on a real time shoot unless you're prepared to blow some of the images. But if you have the feel of the new lens or camera before leaving, missed images shouldn't be a problem, right? Well guess what, the thing that caused me frustration during the first rolls getting the handling down, "the cluttered viewfinder which marks for what lens" became my down fall and the screaming hoppy toads when I arrived home after 6 weeks of shooting hundreds of rolls of film...... Chopped head! Time after time, frame and roll after roll..... I couldn't believe I'd screwed - up so many frames. And it wasn't a shoot you could hop on a plane , get back and re-shoot a bunch of them! The lens was gone overnight and will never grace an M camera of mine again! Hell all you need to compensate for the distance of a 75 while a 50 is mounted is to take one giant step forward and your at the same image size as the 75 or very close. And if one is going beyond a 50 with the an M, one might as well go f 2.0 90 and make the shot really worth while. So I'm putting money into some new Leica glass shortly, however, be assured it wont be for a 75! ted Ted Grant Photography Limited www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html