Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > Amazing! A long distance tele lens with guess to matic focusing now that's > plain odd! And barely possible! > I take it all back I know nothing. Long glass for hiking landscapes? > It was made for "aerial shots." Like you fly around in a plane and set the focus to infinity or 3000 ft, whichever comes first, and shoot away. > A Carl Zeiss: Sonnar T* 4/180 CFE Lens is what %99.9 of any photographer I > know would use for the solution. Or a CFI lens or just CF. ?for medium > format headshots for sure. > Its a marvel of cutting edge Zeiss optical design and engineering. > And the standard of the industry for decades until recently. > Now with a digital back as its probably a 1.5 crop they're using a 120 > macro > if not the 100. > > Of course this was way back when people used film and they cost real money. > Now that they're giving this glass away free in a box of cracker jacks its > just too easy - we must find something rare, expensive ?and impossible to > maintain. Oh with all kinds of high tech stuff which never worked and is > unnecessary. > > For any photographer I ever new this would be like a dream. To wake up and > have all the pricey primo Hassy stuff you could barely if ever afford > without a major loan selling for chump change. Where's that time machine > when you really need it? > The 180 lens you can buy now check google shopping new for 5 grand. > Used for 1 grand. > That new used price discrepancy those kinds of deals exist only with > Hasselblad; no other camera system. > Not Leica. Not Rollei. Not Linhof. > Would you make up your mind?!!! :-) So now it's back to Hassy+180 for headshots? But I guess a 6003+ 180 Xenotar (rhyme with Minotaur?) is not as peachy?!!! I don't mind shooting film. I like film. If I want to or have to shoot digital, I do. This is about "choices," Chai vs. Latte. Red Sox vs, Yankee. -- // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com // w: http://www.imagecraft.com/pub/Portfolio09/ blog: http://rfman.wordpress.com // book: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/745963