Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/14

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Advice needed on 35mm lens for Leica M
From: feli2 at earthlink.net (Feli)
Date: Mon Mar 14 08:16:32 2005
References: <001d01c52891$2fcd4d80$092d000a@ccapr.com>

Nah, B.D. I have different lenses for different jobs.

I have old glowy 90's for shooting woman, because I value my health.
I have nine 50's from the Summar to the current Cron, because sometime
I want to shoot a landscape and give it a very romantic look and at 
other times
I need to see every last detail possible in my subject.

I also own different lenses for some of the other cameras I own.
Like a Wollensak Verito softfocus lens for 4x5, along with a very sharp
Schneider 150mm.

To me they are just different brushes to paint with.
;-)

Feli

On Mar 14, 2005, at 4:27 AM, B. D. Colen wrote:

> True...but I think we think of it as pretty rather than as simply the
> result of inferior glass because some of the world's great 
> photographers
> took many an iconic image with it because it was all that was available
> from the likes of Leica. Note that we don't talk about the Kodak glow,
> or the Bessa glow...But Leica lenses from the early years were not 
> great
> shakes...
>
> Glow, shmoh - No one of you would accept those results from a Nikon or
> Canon lens if their life depended on it - if someone presented an image
> and said, oh, look at that Canon glo, we'd say - "Glo? That's fookin'
> flare!" :-)



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Replies: Reply from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] Re: Advice needed on 35mm lens for Leica M)
In reply to: Message from bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen) ([Leica] Re: Advice needed on 35mm lens for Leica M)