Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Just back from a week in Portland Oregon picking out the real bulk of my stuff. As Zen a guy as I can be in this little apartment in Manhattan its like to have ones stuff. Like my 60mm 2.8D Macro lens which is on my camera now. My clogs. A bunch of CD's I'd not realized would easily fit on my iPod.... http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/080517_195130.jpg.html or http://tinyurl.com/6qtn7z9 I took this shot on the subway platform the year I got here 6 years ago. 5/17/08, 7:51:30 PM, in the subway platform NY, 24.0 mm f/2.8D Its a double exposure blur effect special. I'll tell you about it later if anyone looks at it. When I did a search for May 17th I see that this was the week I first left Portland in my Van with satellite dish on roof with dog. I got a shot from Tillamook where my car blew out on me and I was stuck there a few days maybe I'll post those but I want to go outside and play. With my 60 macro. Somebody asked which are the key lenses for the R system and I've always said when this question has been brought up numerous times on the lug over the past dozen or so years the 60 macro. A big inspiration for me photo wise has been Sebasti?o Salgado and his 60 was superglued to his Leica R6.2 during the film age. A longish normal with the ability to get right in there like nobodies business and excel doing that. Mine would be the Nikon version of that lens. Only AF. And mine goes all the way to 1:1! A Feature I'm sure I've used never. I can take a picture of something which is 24x36mm's big! Most macros' only go 1:2. Its great to be back "home".! When I was just reading about Hassy H glass one tidbit I ran into was the interesting fact that they are not optimized at infinity like every non macro lens see the beginning of time (1839). But as working distances. So a guy was showing though test results that the Fujinon H lens can do better than my beloved Zeiss 100 3.5. As my Zeiss was optimized at infinity (a long way away) and the Fujinon was optimized at "studio distance" which sounds to me like further waay than macro lens which I think is one meter away but closer than infinity. Which, lets face it, takes a long time to get to by foot. And in a rocket ship you need to have that warp nine feature an added extra few can afford. The same guy I'm sure others read this was saying the H glass was not just made by Fujinon and than the people who own Hasselblad used them for their camera system. But the Hassy people were real hand on on the glass design and mechanical design. A thing the were not about to do with uncle Carl (Zeiss). As he would have thought such input quite humorous. Oh at the holiday in in downtown and or NY Portland you can get emails but you cant send them. That's why no me on the lug the past week. I'm sure Brian was all set to close it down till I got back but got elsewise occupied. I got my 80-200 4.5-5.6D back too! Its compact so I can just about do what I'd been doing will my old D200 and my 55-200. Only now with my D700 full frame. Something far away? I'm all over it....!!! An 80-200 zoom on a 35mm SLR has been one of the more useful hunks of glass ever made for the format since the 60's. Gotta go or I'm never come back... - - from my iRabs. Mark Rabiner http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/