Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] A serious questions:
From: Dennis Painter <dpainter@bigfoot.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 19:03:51 -0800

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