Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Alan, AND CREW! All this writing and testing lenses/sharpness etc. can be a lot of wasted time. Can be? I say? Not always. Look for years one of my mottos has been... "IF YOU CAN SEE IT? YOU CAN SHOOT IT!" Sure you have to have a steady body and breathing, an excellent lens of course as you may shoot hundreds of frames of film at "1 sec. hand held and wide open!!!!!!!!" And they can be sharp as a razor blade on film! Today? digital?. SURE! Once I started using LEICA it never ever occurred to me to mix and matching other glass. Fastest lens on the market when it came out was the F 1.0 Noctilux.... that was as far as I was aware! ERGO? Why go around buying, exchanging and whatever swapping need be when you had the best f.1.0 wide open shooting shutter at f1.0, 1 sec? After being published since the first time front page photo on the Ottawa Citizen newspaper 11 Feb, 1951.Then leaving a newspaper job to freelance the world I've used LEICA GEAR RF and SLR's endlessly for published medical books, cowboys, Photography, Hollywood with John Travolta, "URBAN COWBOY!" And endless documentaries on a wide selection of subjects! However? TESTING TIME??? YOU FOLKS SPEND? Is incredible compared to me "shooting assignments for 65 years and never a test!" Oh well? "TOO EACH HIS OWN!" :-) You see every assignment was like a fantastic "LOVE AFFAIR!!!!" testing????????? oh well? cheers, Dr. Ted Grant O.C. -----Original Message----- From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Alan Magayne-Roshak Sent: January-04-18 7:37 PM To: lug at leica-users.org Subject: Re: [Leica] 7 Artisans 50mm F1.1 Lens After I sent my T-Rex picture I saw the comments on fast lenses. I'm very happy with the sharpness of my LTM Canon 1.2 wide open, as seen in this shot. Look large. I shot this at twilight and was too lazy to use a tripod, and it was 5F (-15C) out. < http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Miscellaneous/20180103_ MR_Mine_DSF4944C.jpg.html > -- Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services (Retired) UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978 UPAA Master of the Profession 2014 amr3 at uwm.edu http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information