[Leica] 7 Artisans 50mm F1.1 Lens

[Ted Grant]

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.

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-- 
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

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