Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ah yes but Kobe beef........mmmm. I will be in Japan - Suzuka, in 3 weeks for the GP, maybe someone will buy me some. cheers Frank On 19 Sep, 2004, at 13:45, Karen Nakamura wrote: >> I think we've covered the fish part of the food scale now. >> >> But how do you like your meat? And what kind of meat? >> >> Better even, how would you photograph meat, and since we're at it, >> food in >> general? Is it something a Leica is suited for, or is it just better >> to >> shoot it in middle or large format? > > I've been turned off beef in Japan. First it's extraordinarily > expensive ($10 for a very small steak that I'll cook in my own > kitchen!) because US imports were shut down because of mad cow. And > then they keep on discovering cows with mad cow here. Not reassuring. > > The Leica M is perfectly illsuited to food photography. :-( parallax > error, 0.7m as the closest distance for the 50mm, 1.0 for the > 90mm..... > > Karen > > > > > -- > Karen Nakamura > http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/ > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >