[Leica] 50 APO Summicron on sale.... Overstock.com

[Mark Rabiner]

I have used Foba stands and with geared Tripod heads shooting retail fashion
at at their studio. I don't think I'll end up getting a stand but a gear
head I may still get as there are more compact models out now for not huge
money. I'd use them in the field for going landscapes or cityscapes.


On 12/10/15 5:29 PM, "John McMaster" <john at mcmaster.fr> wrote:

> And others of us stuck them (or sheet film) on Foba studio stands (way
> better than tripods) with many flash units to compare with your
> experiences... Or, dare I say it, shot hand held in good light....
> 
> john
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Rabiner
> 
> Shooting hand held in 35mm format does not dumb down the results to the
> extent that it doesn't matter much if you are using a cheap system or a
> premium system.
> But using a medium format camera hand held is a thing some think is crazy
> like a nature landscape guy but a huge percentage of shots done with a Hassy
> or Mamiya were by people who never took their high speed strobe off the
> camera and shot events or even used them in the studio with no tripod with
> studio strobes. So the advantages of the large format were not lost to
> camera shake or anything else.  Its just you got flash pictures.
> 
> On 12/10/15 4:16 PM, "John McMaster" <john at mcmaster.fr> wrote:
> 
>> I have used RB/RZ, and owned/used most of Hasselblad V at one stage or
>> another (F lenses and the 203 series and up are the exception) and had
>> G1/G2 and lenses....
>> 
>> Now happy with Leica ;-) Just been reunited with my full kit and
>> ancillaries (tripods, lesser used lenses etc), have to say that seeing
>> all the bags, boxes and cases in one place looks a little excessive....
>> 
>> john
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bill Pearce
>> 
>> I was once employeed by a large factory, nad the chief photographer
>> required that we all use the company's RB67's. HAND HELD! the glass
>> was in no way Zeiss. Later when I went out on my own, I jumped into
>> blad gear with both feet. Still got it,can't bring myself to sell it,
>> even though I'm mainly out of film. They are worth the money in every way.
>> 
>> And when I had my brief flirtation with Contax g cameras, I used their
>> zeiss lenses, manufactured by Kyocera under strict Zeiss supervision.
>> I still miss those lenses, especially the 28.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mark Rabiner
>> 
>> This is a culture which embraces safe mediocre bourgeois values and is
>> put off by anything which results in excellence. And feels super
>> threatened by a premium product to the extent that have have to come
>> up with lame put downs on it.
>> In the 90's if you wanted to get a premium product and do really
>> quality commercial work you could get Zeiss for Hasselblad lenses
>> which cost a decimal point over it competition which came on the scene
>> late: Bronica, Mamiya, Pentax and people would say the quality of the
>> Hassy glass made for negs which were "difficult to print". Which is
>> blithering nonsense as we'd been making perfect images from Hassy
>> Zeiss glass for decades which defined the decade in the commercial
>> world..  And not that different from Leica in 35mm price wise and BS wise.
>> People who are not in the mindset to invest in a premium product say
>> "you'll never see the difference anyway" but then don't stop there
>> they go on to say "getting quality that good presets problems".
>> But then they're not trying to fool anybody they're just trying to
>> change the subject.
>> 
>> --
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> Photographer
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
>> 
> 
> 
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Mark William Rabiner
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