Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Last month I was in the Shan State in Burma and have put together a book project of some 80 pictures, called "Chiang Tung Days," that you can download in the form of a 56 MB pdf file by clicking here: http://bit.ly/1asgee0 All of the photos were taken with the Summicron-35v4, whose rendering I like ? this was the first time that I've shot with it in color on the M9. While in recent years I have preferred the 28mm focal length to 35mm, in the markets of the Shan State towns I visited there was so much congestion, so many people in narrow paths or walkways, that I quickly found that, by having to shoot closer up with the 28mm (as I usually do), there is so much going on in the frame that the photographer cannot keep track of it all when trying "to make sense of a complex scene," because one has to see things both to the left and the right at the same, and the angle of view to the edges is just too wide to make sense of the scene ? I mean not looking through the viewfinder but looking at the scene before bringing the camera up to your face. Using the 35mm lens solved all that. ?Mitch/Paris