Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A class was offered by my local Leica dealer for R users. The class focused on all the features we normally ignore. As part of the class there were a large number of slides (projected by Leica!) taken in a bewildering array of situations and with a wide variety of lenses. In general, you could pick out images taken with 2 particular lenses. Their slides seem somehow to have more texture and more 'good stuff'. Sort of like comparing a image of melted wax on a candle stand taken with tri-X versus some of that old Kodak High contrast copy film shot at ASA 25 and processed in that magic developer that gave it low contrast. There is just some sort of smoothness that captures whats really there without giving up the sharpness. Does that make sense? The lenses? the 100 mm APO macro elmarit and the 19 mm elmarit. Others may disagree. I like 'em, that's good enough for me. John B - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html