[Leica] Is everything okay with Five Senses Productions?

[Gabe <egabe@ix.netcom.com>]

Is everything okay with 5 Senses Productions?  I just read the news and was
wondering if it was the same LUG member..

This was on the internet news...

"The case, described as a landmark decision by Playboy, was filed
 in Southern California against Five Senses Productions and its
 owner, Francesco Sanfilippo. The suit charged Five Senses with
 using nearly 7, 500 Playboy-owned images without authorization."



Five Senses Productions wrote:

> I have both an R8 and a M6 0.85 now.  I have used an SLR (Nikon and
> Leica for 2 years now) and an M6 for a month now.  I agree that an SLR
> can do certain things that an M camera cannot do......macro, super-tele,
> fisheye-superwide, superfast winder, and high-speed flash sync.
> I shoot models for a living, and a bit of travel, street, landscape, etc.
> on the side.  In only a month I have become an M convert!  For the type
> of work I do with models (candid, outdoors, natural, non-posed, no flash)
> the M6 is PERFECT.  The $40 Nissin flash I bought for the M6 is good
> enough and has worked perfectly.  With the 25 to 100 speed films I use,
> a 1/50 sync is not a problem at all.  I have had no bad results from the M6
> at all.  My only wishes are for a small motor winder/rewinder.  I don't call
> doubling the height of the camera body a good solution.  The lenses I have
> used are superb.  Performance is better than the R cameras because of
> the lack of mirror vibration and fewer restrictions in lens design.  I can
> actually
> handhold down to 1/15 and get a beautiful photo....amazing!
> I switched from Nikon SLR to Leica SLR in order to improve the quality of
> my images by using Leica glass.  It worked.  I am now moving from Leica
> R to Leica M in order to keep the Leica glass, but get even more compact
> and portable.  It is also working.  I have a feeling the M system will be the
> optimal system for me and my work.
>
> At 07:17 PM 3/27/98 -0800, Jim Brick wrote:
> >I don't wish to start a war, this is simply my educated and experienced
> >Humble Opinion. I use a 4x5 Linhof Field View for the majority of my
> >landscapes, My R camera for the rest. My M camera is not in this class. But
> >my view and my R cannot do what my M can do. The greatest landscape camera
> >available is a view camera. The R camera is closer to the view, by a long
> >shot, than the M. I think the bottom line is that the R camera has better
> >tools for landscape photography. Yes, a good photographer can do good
> >"limited" landscape things with an M camera, but the R camera opens up
> >another dimension, that simply cannot be done with an M camera. Perhaps
> >adding a Visoflex would help. But even an M plus Viso is outclassed by a
> >whole bunch of R lenses (15mm - 800mm, TTL) that produce exquisite
> >landscape photographs, assuming the photographer is capable. You can see
> >your DOF, see a filter effect, change film without disturbing your tripod
> >set-up, composition on a ground glass with a grid (like a 4x5 view) is
> >super, PC lenses to extend DOF or straighten that old water tower or red
> >bard, all viewable TTL, this list could go on for pages.
> >
> >Don't get me wrong, as I said, a good photographer can indeed make good
> >landscapes with an M camera. But they're limited in scope and tools. But an
> >R camera is a whole lot easier, under far better control, and simply in
> >another dimension for this type of photography.
> >
> >Look at the M6 and R8 (or any R) full color brochures side by side. The
> >illustrating photographs, for these two types of cameras, basically depicts
> >the kind of photography that each camera is best suited for. Street stuff,
> >fast moving, candids for the M; landscapes, macro, superwide, and telephoto
> >for the R. There, of course, is an overlap, but clearly, the two different
> >camera systems are more comfortable in their respective areas of intent.
> >
> >Jim
> >
>
> Francesco Sanfilippo,
> Five Senses Productions
> webmaster@5senses.com
>
> http://www.5senses.com/