Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That's very generous of you, Mitch! I have downloaded it for later perusal. Are you Polish BTW? Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ YNWA On Feb 19, 2014, at 8:04 AM, mitcha at mac.com wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >