Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/04/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]With an M your 35 is your normal. Your 28 or 24 is your wide. Your 50 is your tele. On 4/5/15 11:49 PM, "Bill Pearce" <billcpearce at cox.net> wrote: > Maybe there's something wrong with me, but I have for years used a 28 and > not even owned a 35. I have always subscribed to the "if your pictures > aren't good enough you aren't close enough" school of thought. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Rabiner > Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2015 10:32 PM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] Screw the Nocti... > > I don't agree with the Criticism of the 28 cron I'd love one. I love the > compactness of it. > It was put out here or other lists that it was made at a lower standard. > I'd call that baloney. It doest say Summarit on it does it . That's the > only > "bargain" lower standard Leica ever made. If Leica was going to do a thing > like that it would certainly be in their website and not be come kind of > inside secret for photo list people. > > > On 4/5/15 4:06 PM, "Richard Man" <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote: > >> If I do street documentary, I would get a 28mm (again) for sure. I did >> most >> of my "Occupy" series with the 35 or 50mm, and I definitely would have >> loved a 28mm. >> >> Fortunately, the 28mm Cron is the unloved Leica-child, so one can get it >> for around $2500 now. A bargain compares to the Nocti :-) >> >> On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 12:28 PM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Mark, I think you should go back a reread your books ;-) >>> >>> john >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Mark Rabiner >>> Sent: Monday, 6 April 2015 6:08 a.m. >>> To: Leica Users Group >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Screw the Nocti... >>> >>> Most of us and most photographers I've ever met unless they were just >>> starting out had both a 28 and a 24. Nobody ever didn't have either. That >>> would be crazy. Its always been a basic focal length. Its one of the >>> frame >>> lines in M's since the M2 in 1957. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> > > > -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/