Re: [Leica] Words of Wisdom! => Actual Practice Notes

[Five Senses Productions <fls@5senses.com>]

You can fit a CL 40/2 on an M6?
And it's smaller than a 50/2.8 retracted?
Wow.....where do I get one?

Francesco


At 02:02 AM 6/9/98 , Bryan Willman wrote:
>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!
>>
>