Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/17

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Subject: RE: [Leica] M6 HM
From: "Lee, Ken" <ken.lee@hbc.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 08:16:40 -0400

So much depends on style and taste. Last winter I  spent a couple of hours
at a kid's fair.  I went as a personal "project". I took an M6 with a 35mm
Summicron, and M3 with a 90mm Summicron, and a 50 in my pocket. It was
indoors and fairly crowded so I thought the 35mm would get the most use.  I
ended up shooting 1 roll of TMY with each body. Every image I have printed
so far was taken with the 90.  I like them so much better.  I either have
not yet learned to be a wide angle person (in 40+ years of photography) or I
am afraid to get "too close".  I like the look I get with  the 75 and 90 mm
lenses.

I have since replaced the M3 with an M6HM.  I love it for 50mm and longer.

Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	fld [SMTP:fld@mozcom.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, June 16, 1998 10:32 PM
> To:	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject:	Re: [Leica] M6 HM
> 
> At 07:16 PM 6/16/98 EDT, you wrote:
> >In a message dated 6/16/98 9:36:06 AM EST, ertman@online.no writes:
> >
> ><< My initial lenses will be a 50mm Summicron and a 35mm Summicron. Will
> it be
> > "loveable" with these lenses? >>
> >
> 
> Hi!
> 
> My experience after travelling to the US and some Asian Country, the 35 &
> 50 are all the lens you really need to capture beautiful images. Once in a
> while the need for wider lens like a 24 and 21 would be desirable.
> 
> While I have a 90mm lens as well, I find I use this lens a lot less than
> the other two, perhaps 5%.
> 
> regards
> 
> Ferdinand