Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Michael, In 12 years of shooting SLRs, I also thought that street/candid photography could not be done with a wide-angle lens, and I always either used a long lens to be far away from the subject or an extreme wide angle like 17mm to include people surreptitiously. But with M6, my most successful candid photos have been made with the 2.0/35mm Summicron. There is something about the M6 which lets you shoot quickly and close up; I also find that it somehow helps me overcome my natural shyness that this camera is so small and quiet. Nathan Michael Garmisa wrote:SNIP > Just wondering how you use like that 35 on the street, seems like > you would really be in the subjects face. What lenses does everyone else use > on the street? > > -- > Michael Garmisa <kilemall@shell.excelsior.net> ICQ# 11583837 > http://shell.excelsior.net/~kilemall/ 23-May-9818:14:38 > PGP key at: http://shell.excelsior.net/~kilemall/kilemall.asc - -- Nathan Wajsman Overijse, Belgium Photography page: http://members.tripod.com/~belgiangator/index.html Motorcycle page: http://www.geocities.com/motorcity/downs/1704/index.html