Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/18

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: M6 or R6.2 for landscapes
From: Jeffrey Hausner <Buzz@marianmanor.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 14:57:58 -0400

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	cb [SMTP:chribeck@mdc-berlin.de]
> Sent:	Friday, September 18, 1998 12:43 PM
> To:	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject:	[Leica] Re: M6 or R6.2 for landscapes
> 
> For landscapes only? Ever and ever? Are you sure? 
> OK try an M6 (I mean try to find one who let you use his/her) and find
> out if you could focus with it (you really have to try). In my opinion
> the M6 is a camera best for one special porpuse:taking pictures of
> people. The R is best for everything else. But for landscapes you need
> DOF, filters, wideangle lenses... and you need the R. And BTW although
> medium format has some advantages when you do the prints yourself, 24x36
> (for me) is a very attractive height/width combination for landscapes,
> with medium format or 4x5 you would have to crop.
> 
> Christian Becker 
> http://www.magicalights.co.jp/decadent/christian/index.html
	[Buzz]  
	Perhaps taking this in the wrong direction, but I most often find
myself using longer lenses for landscapes and using my 21 in-doors.  I
agree, however, that landscapes are often better composed and created in a
larger format than 35mm., if one has the choice.

	buzz