Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for setting this issue straight, Kyle (no pun intended, or...). The picture IS awesome for reasons that have nothing to do with the equipment. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog YNWA On Sep 29, 2010, at 5:52 PM, kyle cassidy on the LUG wrote: > Philiippe -- other cameras have distortion, what you see here is the > famous Leica Circular Focus (LCF), unique to Leitz lenses and one of the > ways you can tell a photo is made with a genuine Leica -- the lens is > constructed so as to draw your attention to the center, like the gravity > of the sun bends the essence of space with her powerful gravity, drawing > things into her orbit. You shoot with some inferior camera, you'll get > barrel distortion. Choose a Leica -- your photos will benefit from the > LCF, people will be pulled into them and unable to escape the Pure Awesome > (PA). > > > On Sep 29, 2010, at 11:44 AM, philippe.amard wrote: >> Works for me - nice use of the (double?) barrel distortion - keep >> Leicaing Kyle > >> >> Le 29 sept. 10 ? 17:02, kyle cassidy on the LUG a ?crit : >> >>> >>> One from the Digilux project which is now almost entirely completed. I >>> had 20 people from around the world send me a quote and I did a >>> photograph inspired by each of them. All in 1.5 megapixels of PURE >>> AWESOME on Bob Baron's old Digilux 4.3. >>> >>> http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2010/velocity.jpg >>> >>> it has a red dot, it must be awesome. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >