Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Claes Bjerner wrote: > > But what=B4s more important before one makes a firm decision is wheth= er the Hologon lens really is what you need! Keep in mind that the Hologo= n is of very limited use. And it=B4s certainly not made for casual snapsh= ots or for regular news photography. It=B4s even difficult to use handhel= d since it has to be perfectly leveled. And with its largest apperture of= f8 it needs pretty long exposure times. One can forget about shooting mo= ving objects with films slower than 400ASA! >=20 > On the other hand, if you - like me - need to photograph old buildings = in narrow streets a super wide angle like the Hologon is the only lens th= at can do the job. Also if you like to photograph industrial sites, or rockets. I was in Or= lando recently for a conference and played hooky for a day to go out to the Ken= nedy Space Center. Now there is a place worth going to. They have a Saturn V= in a building made to house it. It is truly astounding. Without a 21mm lens,= it would be difficult to get even the bottom end in the frame. I used a 21 Super-Angulon on an R6.2, and I kept a 28 on an R6 (B+W vs. color), and o= ften the 28 just couldn't encompass what I was trying to put in the frame. Similarly with industrial landscapes, one is often unable to get sufficie= ntly far away to encompass the area of interest with anything but a very wide = lens. At the Kennedy Space Center I ran into a gentleman, apparently a tourist = from Scandinavia, although we didn't speak for long enough for me to be sure, = who was using an R4 with a Leica perspective control lens -- either the 28 or= the 35, I'm not sure which. He was very nice and we exchanged a couple of re= marks about Leicas. I find myself wondering whether he might be a list member. - -Patrick