Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sorry Richard, no advice offered, sorry if I implied some. Just a comment. I am not a fan of B&W for most subjects, personally. Frank On 27 Jan, 2010, at 08:36, Richard Man wrote: > Thanks for the advice, I'm sure it's true for YOU. > > I do have a lowly junker M8u, the one with the cripple crop sensor :-) > Anyway, I wouldn't trade it to do what I do at Salton Sea and Joshua > Tree, even though I did bring it with me and took some photos with it > too :-) > > > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Frank Dernie > <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> wrote: >> Aha, an opportunity for 2 OT posts at once. The last time I used my >> Mamiya 7 was on my Icelandic holiday the summer of 2005. It had been my >> hiking/landscape camera of choice for a long time. I took it and, my then >> fairly new, Canon EOS 1Ds mk2. I took a few pictures which were from the >> same viewpoint on the same tripod with both cameras, just for interest's >> sake. I had to scan the film when I got home, of course, but the scanned >> images from the Mamiya 7, mainly using the 43mm lens, were only a bit >> technically superior to the Canon shots using the less than stellar >> 16-35mm zoom. I was astonished. The M9, or Nikon D3x with the 14-24 zoom >> is much better than the Canon for landscapes. The Mamiya was still a good >> choice for hiking, if you haven't got a M8 or M9. >> For the slow B&W film Richard, I am sure it is still superior, as long as >> you have a rigid tripod. >> Frank >> >> On 27 Jan, 2010, at 04:08, Richard Man wrote: >> >>> You infidel :-) >>> >>> Let the firework begins!!! :-) >>> >>> Actually, the reason I use the Mamiya 7II for my B&W work is >>> because... well, 6x7 neg is about 4 times the size of a 35mm frame, >>> digital or not :-) >>> >>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:38 PM, slobodan Dimitrov >>> <s.dimitrov at charter.net> wrote: >>>> To tell you a plain truth, from my vantage point, my 1D MIII with a 50 >>>> f1.8, walks circles around most of the shots I've seen posted with the >>>> M8 or M9. >>>> S.d. >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> // 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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > // 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information