Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Charles Babbington wrote: . . . Leica will come through under SOME circumstances when others simply won't. . . My example: I was shooting a day assignment when it turned into an evening assignment. I had no lights and only two lenses faster than 2.8, a 50mm summicron-M and a 100mm f2 Canon EF. I shot both cameras next to each other both with Goldmax at 800 ISO. The Canon was on a tripod, and I hand-held the M6. Shooting both at f2 at 1/30th in a room full of candles and lantern light. The images were sharp with both lenses, the Canon lens is consistently good across the frame. But the Leica images looked like they were made in a normally lit room, good shadow detail, backgrounds that could be easily placed. The Canon images were obscured by contrast, dim sides of faces became detailless blobs. The Leica images are in the publication, I never even showed the client the Canon images. Same photographer, same film. On a sunny day at F8 there's no difference between Canon and Leica glass. Even at F2 in good light it's hard to prefer one over the other all the time, but when the chips are down, the Leica comes through. Tom ================================== Thomas Kachadurian WEB PAGE: http://members.aol.com/kachaduria