Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/01

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Subject: [Leica] About the Summilux 50mm
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov)
Date: Mon Nov 1 10:38:46 2004

The 0.7 point of focus is about flexibility. I came to appreciate the close
focus capability of the M3 frogeye 'cron, which focused even closer.
Now if one is taking passport mugs, then I can see where the flattery issue
comes in. But being able to work a face all over the frame, sometimes as
close as possible, is a necessary option as far I'm concerned.
S. Dimitrov

> From: Dan C <bladman99@yahoo.ca>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 12:48:37 -0500
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: RE: [Leica] About the Summilux 50mm
> 
> Many people here comment about the need for closer-than 1 meter focusing
> for portraits with the Summilux-M.  I have always found that people
> photographs at such close ranges with a 50 are very unflattering due to
> exagerated perpective.  I even have that problem with the 75 (and had that
> problem with my 120 on my Hasselblad).
> 
> Comments?
> 
> -dan c.
> 
> At 12:26 PM 01-11-04 -0500, Higa Isaku wrote:
> 
> [snip]
>> The only problems was that min. focusing distance was 1m.  Because I took
>> lots of close-up shots of children.
> [snip]
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Replies: Reply from jbcollier at shaw.ca (John Collier) ([Leica] About the Summilux 50mm)
In reply to: Message from bladman99 at yahoo.ca (Dan C) ([Leica] About the Summilux 50mm)