[Leica] Nathan's PAD 8/2/2019: testing a new lens on the beach

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

I am also a 85mm sort of guy, which is why I find a 35mm wide enough for my
general needs.

Cheers
Jayanand

On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 7:49 PM Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwmalumni.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> >Looks good!
>
> >What I do when I am on a purely cultural trip is take the X100S and the
> >X-E1 with the 56mm f1.2 - makes for an light, fast, highly capable
> >35mm/85mm kit. The other thing I do when I really want to travel
> ultralight
> >is to just take the X100S with the superb wide and tele screw on adapters
> -
> >gives me a 28mm/35mm/50mm f2 kit I can carry in my pockets!
>
> >Cheers
> >Jayanand
>
> =====================================================================================
> Jayanand, what you take sounds eminently practical, and light.  After 40
> years on the job hauling heavy Nikons,
> and then Canons with huge zooms, the only multi-focal lens I use is the
> 5.1-12.8 f/2 Vario Summicron on my
> Lumix LX3, for the 24mm or 35mm equivalent settings on the rare occasion
> when I want a wider view than 50mm
> (from a 35mm Summicron on my X-E2).
> My normal bag has LX3, X-E2, 105mm f/1.8 Nikkor, 35mm f/2 Summicron, and a
> 50mm
> lens (choosing from among 50mm Summicron LTM collapsible, 50mm Summicron M
> collapsible,
> 50mm Summicron DR, 50mm f/1.4 Zuiko, 50mm f/1.2 Canon LTM, and even a 50mm
> f/1.8 Kern Macro-Switar;
> seldom used are a 50mm f/1.4 Nikkor and 50mm f/1.4 Super-Takumar).  I like
> the cropped sensor on the X-E2
> since 85-90mm was my favorite focal length on film cameras, and now I have
> all those choices of what are now
> small 80mm lenses.  A 50 is on my camera 90% of the time.
>
> --
> 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
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>
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