[Leica] The Handmaid's Tale -- More 50mm musings

[Steve Barbour]

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> On Sep 3, 2015, at 12:36 PM, kyle cassidy on the lug <leicaslacker at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I’m sure I’m hoping I can get better just by buying new equipment :) It’s easier to blame the lens than anything else. 
> I’ve done side by side tests with a borrowed Summilux and there is a difference (in contrast especially) and i vacillate between “nobody will notice” and “do my photos look blurry?” 
> Gear Acquisition Syndrome. 


This is for a poster or?


If it's only for the web what you have is fine,  for a poster etc can't tell.
> 
>> Terrific image Kyle, what are you concerned about?
>> 
>> s
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>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> On Sep 3, 2015, at 10:01 AM, kyle cassidy on the lug <leicaslacker at 
>>> gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2015/kyle-cassidy-handmaids-tale.jpg <http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2015/kyle-cassidy-handmaids-tale.jpg> 
>>> <http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2015/kyle-cassidy-handmaids-tale.jpg <http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2015/kyle-cassidy-handmaids-tale.jpg>>
>>> 
>>> Leica M9, Canon Serenar 50mm f 5.6
>>> 
>>> Every once in a while I take a photo that I think is substandard and I 
>>> wonder if it?s the 50mm I?m using and other times it seems to be just 
>>> fine. The Handmaid?s Tale takes place in the future where most people are 
>>> sterile. It?s a classic work of feminism and science fiction and a source, 
>>> I?m told, of great Canadian Pride. 
>>> 
>>> I used the 50 both at it?s ordinary close focus and again with the closeup 
>>> adapter both of which seemed to work pretty well.
>>> 
>>> This doesn?t mean that you shouldn?t try and sell me your Voigtlander 50mm 
>>> 1.5 m-mount. 
>>> 
>>> Thoughts? 
>>> 
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