Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks though its from a bulk scan and I sharpened it a tad too much. Some day I'll find the neg and scan it on my nikon and do it up right. Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb > From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 00:54:15 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] M lens 21mm F2.8 pre ASPH > > Mark, > > I also recall that shot, and, viewed large, it is, to me, a fine image. > Good tones, the engraving is legible, all looks good. I like it. > > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2011 12:22 AM > Subject: Re: [Leica] M lens 21mm F2.8 pre ASPH > > >> It is through a rainy windshield shot in a moving car so no we know >> nothing >> really about the quality of this lens. Other than light can pass through >> it >> and it says Leitz on it. >> Here's one sharper. The one of me in the mirror with the camera with lens >> on >> it in front of my face reminiscent of the iconic Feininger image. >> Its a little sharper but it was a dark bathroom and I'm betting I'm having >> to shoot wide open at a slowish shudder speed. >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/071028_083148.jpg.html >> >> >> Mark William Rabiner >> >> >> >>> From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 16:06:36 -0500 >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] M lens 21mm F2.8 pre ASPH >>> >>> Mark, >>> >>> I have seen your Elmar image previously, and don't find that it lives up >>> to >>> the quality of the lens. Here is an image made in January 1953, using my >>> 50/3.5 Coated Elmar on a Leica IIIa, albeit one that had been fitted with >>> flash by E. Leitz N. Y. I used fill flash because it was late afternoon. >>> Probably on ASA 10 Kodachrome. >>> >>> The Elmar did everything I needed in the early 50s, except offer me the >>> speed available today. >>> >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Cigar+Box/Donna02sm+53.jpg.html >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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