Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]So, I'm just back from a race weekend (driving) in CA. I carried about with me a little black bag, smaller than some women's purses. Camera, 3 lenses, including 2 f1.4s. About 1/3 of shots were at f1.4. All shots were only possible because after 40 lbs of helmet, suit, gloves, etc, I just don't have energy left for "big" camera gear. Little bag with little Leica gear is almost always bearable. And the lenses can see in the dark. So, if I didn't misload the film or otherwise screw up, there will be shots of my S.O. across the dinner table, shots of the deer on the Pebble Beach golf course, etc. On a related note, I've been carrying an M6 with a 40mm f2. Summicron originally intended as a lens for a CL. I pretend it's a 50 (as does the viewfinder.) It's main claim to fame is that it's about as small as you could get and still be able to set f-stop and focus. It is smaller in use than a 50f2.8 collapsible is when retracted. Makes a nice pocket camera. Will see film soon. Don't expect it to match my 35f1.4asph, but a camera in the hand is worth 7 in the closet. (40f2 gets carried by itself, never with other lenses.) (Oh, and I too once owned an AF Sigma that behaved badly.) bmw - -----Original Message----- From: Claes Bjerner <claes.bjerner@pi.se> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Monday, June 08, 1998 2:13 PM Subject: [Leica] Words of Wisdom! Yesterday Bob Roseman wrote this on the EOS list: >All right Ladies and Gentlemen, it's put up or shut up time. I have been on >this list long enough to know that there are those of you out there who >feel that lens sharpness is the be all and end all of lens performance >(with occasional comments concerning damping, lens droop, and my favorite >topic, self destruction of Sigma lenes). > 0 0 0 >Let's all cut out the posturing about being pros, experts, wealthy, poor >what ever it is we use to justify the lenses we buy and level about >subjects we shoot, what lenses we have, and whether what we own fills the >bill or leaves us wanting. > >That way, we will all benefit far more from one another's experience. >Remember the truth! >