Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim Brick wrote: <<<<Even though it's not a lens that you use daily, it's a lens that can make you look like a genius. It's also a "how did you do that???" lens. To me, this lens is not a novelty (like the 16mm fisheye), it is a real lens. A real tool. Awesome is the only word that can describe it.>>> Hi Jim, It surely is an "awesome tool" and it gives me great satisfaction each time I have something no other photographer can do, unless he has a similar focal length lens. It isn't just the focal length, it is the crisp super images it produces on film and the perspective as you say, <<<<<"Used correctly, it can make a closet look like a ballroom, a small recital at a local civic park, look like a rock concert in NYC Central Park.">>>>>>> and it is that perspective that can sort your work out from other guys. I probably use mine far more on interiors because that is when you just blow people away with it. From owners to art directors it is always the same old question, "How did you do that? It looks so fantastically big." Response is always , "it's a trade secret!" hell I don't want everyone rushing out there buying a $10,000. lens and beating me out. :) ted