Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes I would have gone with Leica glass however I don't really have a Leica lens optimized for close up so I may have passed. In 1994 I only had a couple of Leica lenses. When I got my 90 Elmarit in '97 I'm sure I tested it out on them. It possible may have been I did the project in the fist place becuae I'd just got the 105 2.8 micro and wanted to see what it would do. Shooting it with a heavy Gitzo and running Agfapan 25 in Rodinal 1:100 was one way to find out. I shot most of them around f8 or f11. With a locked up mirror. Shutter speed? I may have not paid very much attention to it as it didn't make much difference. Years later I did so some shots of the telephone poles with my 90 APO ASPH which posted a few weeks ago as I've been shooting those for not just that week for that project but for years. Decades. Whenever I got any new lens for any camera system one of the first things id shoot would be the telephone poles. But not always with the Gitzo sometimes I'd just do it in direct sunlight or flash. But I shot those poles as did many of my Portland friends in all kinds of light and all kinds of glass. All kinds of film. And I sure shot them when I first got my 120 f4 CFI Makro Planar T* for my Hasselblads. I know I shot them in all kinds of light with my Digilux 1 Panasonic Leica digital. Great fun. Mark R. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/ > From: Robert Meier <robertmeier at usjet.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:18:46 -0600 (CST) > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Agfapan 25 16x20 > > That's a very handsome print. It looks like it is very, very sharp. If > you > had had the Leica then, would you have shot this with the Leica? > > > On Jan 8, 2012, at 2:14 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >> What popped up today was a Portland Telephone Pole in black and white in >> frame a 16x20 print shot with Agfapan 25 film and developed in Rodinal >> 1:100 >> printed on Ilford Multigrade fiber. My most dramatic example of these. >> The negative was shot with a 105 micro Nikkor AF and a tripod. (Gitzo) >> The jpeg was shot with a 12.0-24.0 mm f/4.0 DX Nikkor and bounce flash off >> the ceiling. >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/050108_062301.jpg.html >> or >> http://tinyurl.com/73x8lja >> This was hung in my bedroom in Portland OR as you see it now. >> Its framed in a 20x24 metal frame and matted with 100% museum board I cut >> on >> a matt cutter. I think I made 16 or more of these telephone poles all shot >> the same week on Agfapan 25 for a show in a then new now gone local >> upscale >> espresso lunch shop Cafe Fresco a block from my house on 24th and Thurman >> in 1992. A year before I got my first Leica. >> >> This jpeg was shot 7 years ago. 2005 >> All my cells have replaced themselves. >> I'm a new man now. >> >> -- >> Mark R. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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