Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- --WebTV-Mail-714058051-1180 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Please REMOVE me from the List...I didn't know this was a chat-line...thanks... ED. - --WebTV-Mail-714058051-1180 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Received: from mailsorter-101-2.bryant.webtv.net (209.240.198.96) by postoffice-111.bryant.webtv.net; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 14:53:04 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: <leica-users-admin@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Received: from mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [192.147.236.1]) by mailsorter-101-2.bryant.webtv.net (8.8.8/ms.graham.14Aug97) with ESMTP id OAA08656; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 14:53:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (8.9.1/8.9.1) id OAA21189; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 14:32:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imo27.mx.aol.com (imo27.mx.aol.com [198.81.17.71]) by mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA21184; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 14:31:57 -0700 (PDT) From: FIGLIO4CAP@aol.com Received: from FIGLIO4CAP@aol.com (14462) by imo27.mx.aol.com (IMOv20) id oHINa17925 for <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 17:27:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <1235b28f.244f9cca@aol.com> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 17:27:38 EDT Subject: Re: [Leica] Was Compact cam, now Elmar 2.8 To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 4 Sender: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Precedence: bulk Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us In a message dated 4/21/99 12:55:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, mrabiner@concentric.net writes: << How many fifties are too many? Gosh, Mark, I feel like I'm on the witness stand (;-) I have three 50's for the M and two for the R and the 60 2.8. I always put the Summicron on in case I wanted the extra stop - for little increase in size and weight. I find the M camera with a lens too big for my pocket- even the collapsable. For that use I have a Minox 35 ML. Don't you have a Noct. as well? Yes, I do, but it has a markedly different character compared to the Summicron or the Elmar. Why did you buy it in the first place? I thought it would be significantly smaller and lighter. I bought it on the net and had never seen one "in person" before. Is it the cheapest new Leica M lens made? I dunno.. It is gorgeous! How often do you shoot Tech Pan. film with a sandbaged tripod and then make 20 by 24's? >> Practically never - so what? I have used almost every format from 35mm to 5X7 over the last 35 years or so and have decided to "specialize" in 35mm for my last years. I use Leica because of certain characteristics if the images and the delight I get in owning and handling the stuff. Now and then I do go after high picture quality almost as an end in and of itself. That does mean a tripod and a small bag of lead shot. Usually it also means the Leicaflexes as well. Bob Figlio - --WebTV-Mail-714058051-1180--