[Leica] Lens Signatures

[philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)]

Hi Leon,
With a better (more user fiendly) website, your content would be  
honoured more.
Philippe



Op 17-nov-06, om 21:02 heeft Leon Pomeroy het volgende geschreven:

> Len:
>
> Your greatly appreciated Puts reference site failed to display with
> Explorer; but come up ok with Firefox. Apart from Leica lenses where
> does one turn to get such nuanced "signature" information on non-Leica
> (Japanese) lenses?  Perhaps this topic doesn't interest many; but, it
> intrigues me as an amateur astronomer who ground mirrors for  
> telescopes
> as a teenager on a New England farm years ago.
>
> Leon
>
> www.e-valuemetrics.com
>
> A brief photo P.S.: The travel images on my web site (See: "Informal
> Gallery") were captured with my first digital camera, the Point and
> Shoot Olympus 5050 which possesses a very fast f1.8 lens of the sort I
> like for museums and in Tibet and China (e.g., Shanghai) they had no
> objections to my photographing anything without flash. My serious
> equipment over the years included the R5 with 100 Macro f2.8 lens, my
> favorite Leica M5 (fits my hands just fine) with "warm" Noctilux 50mm
> f/1.2. I shoot with a collectable Leica A (Pre-WWII SM) as well. These
> days I'm capturing images mostly with my digital canon with L-series
> lenses for reasons of computer assisted efficiencies. I confess
> photography has always been a serious hobby while's I've pursued a
> career that also involves pioneering new thinking about values and
> morals (right-wrong, nice-nasty, good-evil) etc which is off-topic in
> these parts.
>
> Thanks for referencing the work of Irwin Puts. I'm impressed with  
> all he
> has accomplished, essentialized and succinctly distilled in these  
> pages
> on all that's Leica.
>
>
>
> Message: 2
>
> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:45:26 -0500
>
> From: Leonard Taupier <len-1@comcast.net>
>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] FW: Lens "Signatures"
>
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>
> Leon,
>
> Look into Edwin Puts "Leica Lens Compendium". It describes every lens
>
> that Leica ever made, I think. He describes everything technically
>
> rather then romantically. You can download it from his site here:
>
>  <http://www.imx.nl/photosite/comments/paypal.html>
> http://www.imx.nl/photosite/comments/paypal.html
>
> The downloads are free but Edwin asks for a donation if you find the
>
> downloads useful. After reading the pdf. I actually bought the book.
>
> I refer to it often.
>
> Len
>
>
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