Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Very nice Mark, beautiful tones Saludos Lluis El 05/11/2010, a las 15:18, Mark Rabiner escribi?: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/101030_153405.jpg.html > > It was before Halloween. The war was over. And there I was walking > through > Spanish Harlem clicking full frame pix on the way back from a Doc > appointment. I thought I was in the Hamptons. > Everywhere there were very classy very odd pumpkins spewing out into > the > sidewalks. Which if they get odd enough are called "gourds". But > there were > glittered and spray painted. > > My first pro level camera I got in 1972, I was 21. It was a very > good year. > Instead of a Nikon F which would have been expected of me I got the > just out > upstart Nikon F2. Eyebrows were raised. > And instead of a 50mm 1.4 or f2 I got the just out with an article > in my > Nikon magazine about it: 45mm GN 2.8 pancake blitz lens. > So I walked around with that combination for several years. > I carried with me wherever I went a set of Tiffin close up "filters" > 1,2 & 3 > Dioptor so I could focus closet than 3 feet which I often did. > It stopped down to f32. Which I often shot it at in events. With a > Metz > flash set at half power manual. > F 32 and be there. > > I don't have to worry about thing to find one for nostalgia sake as > I never > sold it. Still have it. I can still use it on an FM body I still > have. But > not an FE-2 which I later mainly used. I cant use it on the new > digital > cameras I don't think. > > But Mister Kobayashi in his wiseness but mainly coolness had the > whim to re > introduce the lens for Nikon. And that happened right as I went > digital, > getting a D100 in July 2003. The new 45mm P had been out since 2001. > > http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/nikkoresources/50mmnikk > or/index9.htm > Or > http://tinyurl.com/2uuust > > I love normal lenses but a 50 on a 35mm camera is not normal. They > can feel > like you're working with a short telle. > The breathing space afforded with the 45mm lens I find quite > noticeable and > useful. > 43.4 is normal. > > And that fact that its a pancake makes the camera with lens fit flat > right > in my Domke satchel bag. > Its very non unobstreperous. > I like it. > > I've returned home. > Have found redemption. > > My MOJO is on the way. > > -------------------- > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > mark at rabinergroup.com > Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information