[Leica] Leica Q3 43mm lens just announced

[Alan Magayne-Roshak]

On Thu, 26 Sep 2024 Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us>wrote:

>Basically all I do is portraits. I'm not in the same class as, say, Alan
>Magayne-Roshak, but generally the people whose portraits I take say they
>like them.

>My experience is that the focal length of the lens only affects how much
>you have to crop the frame. My benchmark portrait lens is the LTM Elmar
>9cm f4, but I have found that if my distance to the subject is the same
>with my Q2 28mm, I get the same pose and perspective as I get with the
>90mm Elmar. The whole trick is to stand where you would stand with a
>90mm lens, and resist the temptation to get closer. The Q2 has enough
>pixels that a digital crop yields good results.
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Thank you Brian.  You're so kind.

-- 
Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer, Emeritus
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
(Retired)
UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978
UPAA Master of the Profession 2014
amagayneroshak at gmail.com
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