Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Why you would require a user to support java to view your images is a mystery to me. You will get more visitors if you don't require java or javascript. Dennis Chandos Michael Brown wrote: > > Two things: > > There's been quite a lot of conversation here and elsewhere about the > capability of the Russar 20/5.6. I've just posted a couple of images that > I think pretty well capture its strengths and weaknesses. All shots are > hand held. I metered exposure with a Luna Pro. > > The aperture in the color image is stopped all the way down; the B&W image > is wide open.. I've shot hundreds of frames w/ this lens on IIIf and it > still impresses me. Mine was manufactured in 1995. > > The photo home page is: http://www.wm.edu/CAS/ASP/faculty/brown/photomain.htm > > Click on "The Netherlands II" > > Additionally, I now celebrate about a year's experience with the non-asp > 35/1.4 and begin to feel as though I'm getting the hang of the lens. I've > posted the image that most pleases me under "Friends." Click on > "Amy." The monitor simply doesn't do justice to the quality of the > negative, which offers a far wider tonal range than reproduced here. The > focus plane in the photo runs through the subject's hand and the glass > adjacent to it. I'm shooting wide open. I'm curious: if I were taking the > same photo with the newer asph. model, what sort of difference could I > expect? > > I'm not interested in a flame; I'm genuinely interested to get some sense > of the practical difference between the two version. > > Many thanks. > > Chandos > > Chandos Michael Brown > Assoc. Prof., History and American Studies > College of William and Mary > > http:www.wm.edu/CAS/ASP/faculty/brown