Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Rabs, > > Taken literally that doesn't make much sense; I should have said something > like > it is lot hungrier for light than a 35mm. > > Expected, given a slower lens spreading the rays out over a bigger area, > but > initially surprising with a camera that looks like an R8. Looks aren't > everything. > > John Its a medium format camrea in a 35mm package. Delight in its deceptiveness. I was out of school my first roll with a Rolleiflex which I got a year or two after I graduated having dreamt of larger formats for a decade. It was not walk in the park you need to stop down a few more to get the same depth of field.. And those days as now I was not such a wide open shooting person wanting to get a few things in focus. There was no Neopan 1600 for my Rolleiflex or Hasselblad. And those were the ones who really needed it. And you'd have not known you'd have shot it as the larger format would mean you'd not see the added grain in an average blow up. But Moving up to medium format was an exciting thing for me then and I'm sure will be for most now in the digital sense. I have small rez jpg's from 4x5's on my my website it seems like a waste but sometimes you make a larger print and it pays off.. http://rabinergroup.com/Catagorypages/Halloween2001.html [Rabs] Mark William Rabiner