[Leica] A new Tri-Elmar soon ?

[imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)]

I
so hear
what you're say'n

I often wonder
if my light is darker
than other people's light

;~)

Regards,
George Lottermoser
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
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On Sep 16, 2009, at 3:12 PM, Jeff Moore wrote:

> 2009-09-16-14:57:58 Mark Rabiner:
>> f 4 I may be  my favorite f stop.
>> If I was the new Mr. Chang the first thing I would do would be to  
>> come out
>> with a complete line of f 4's.
>> Don't forget!
>> We don't have to LOOK THROUGH the darned things.
>
> Yeah, yeah, yeah.  You say that over and over.
>
> And over.  And over.
>
> For me an f/4 lens is almost completely useless.  I'd only use it  
> outside, and
> I'm mostly only outside on the way from one inside venue to  
> another.  If I put
> a slow-ass f/4 lens on my camera, I'd have to carry a faster one  
> with me and
> remember to change to it when I got where I was going.  Which would be
> annoying and add extra weight to haul around.  And that's all  
> assuming the
> travel was during daylight hours.
>
> To pick a day recent enough that I still remember f-stops and  
> suchlike, when I
> wwnt to shoot here,
>
>   http://photos.bazbarfoo.com/Events/2009-09-11-WarehouseOpening
>
> I took two cameras: one with the optically-fantastic 28mm Summicron  
> on it, and
> another with the 35mm Summilux-M ASPH on it.  Of the 28 pictures which
> survived my edit, only one was with the f/2.0 lens -- it was too  
> damned slow
> to give me usefully-reliable hand-held shutter speeds in the light  
> available.
> Everything else was with the Summilux wide-open at f/1.4, and even  
> then the
> shutter speeds were problematic.
>
> I have the swell 24mm f/2.8, which would seem like a really handy  
> thing to
> have on an M8.  Practically never use it.  Too damned slow, I'd  
> lose lots of
> shots to motion blur.
>
> F/4?  Really?  Might as well shoot with a pinhole camera.
>
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