Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sep 4, 2013, at 4:30 PM, Bill Clough wrote: > HCB occasionally shot with a 35mm and very, very rarely used a 90mm. > > --Bill > > > On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > wrote: > >> ?The 50 is exactly what the human eye sees, without any distortion,? said >> Mr. Delay, 53," >> A quaint myth from decades gone by. Most people shooting that stuff now >> would do it with an ultra wide to wide zoom and to be caught with just a >> 50 >> would leave them dumbfounded. >> The human eye sees with a 180mm F/3.4 Apo-Telyt-R in sharp focus but as >> in >> inset to a bokeh rich out of focus 18mm f/3.8 Super-Elmar-M Aspherical >> extending to way out to the edges otherwise known as peripheral vision. >> The "discipline" of just using a 50 is just groovy I'm sure a lot of >> people >> are wondering what he'd have brought back from these intense shooting >> experiences fully equipped at least with a wide and a Tele to back him up >> -or those countless times when a 50 is just not going to get the shot. >> >> Me I leave the house everyday with a lens on my camera and seldom another >> lens in by side bag which is when I'm working for myself but If I'm >> working >> for others I sure have myself covered in the wide and tele departments. .. >> As I'm just not going to confuse the wonderfulness of single lens >> "austerity" with just not giving a rats ass when I'm on someone else's >> dime. >> This guy is apparently living some place for a year then sending in the >> pix >> he gets to call it as he wants to - its a bit of a luxury. >> >> By the way a misconception HCB did ALL of his work with a 50. He did MOST >> of >> his work with a 50 had at least a wide in his bag when he was working for >> Magnum - not just himself. It seems possible he never used a tele. In terms of human scale "street" type photography A 21 mm on a 24 x 36 frame feels like what I see when I concentrate on "taking in" my peripheral vision. (Anything shorter than the 21mm feels quite outside my unaided human eye experience) A 35 mm on a 24 x 36 frame feels like what I normally see clearly without any particular focused attention. A 50 mm on a 24 x 36 frame feels like what I see using relatively focused attention. A 75 mm on a 24 x 36 frame feels like what I see when I'm very focused and really studying something. A 90 mm on a 24 x 36 frame feels like I'm using 5 or 6 power binoculars. (Anything longer begins to feel telescopic) Close-up, Macro and Microscopy opens up worlds normally unseen by my human eye; as does true Telescopic viewing or photography Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist