Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's amazing how accustomed we become to our equipment. Today for the first time in years I used a Nikon FE2 to shot an abortion protest and found about 1/3 of the shots were ruined by shake. It was pretty dark and I was at about f4 and 30th-60th. I have been using rangefinder cameras for so long I never even thought about the risk I was taking, and I got sloppy. Shots I took with the M6 all came out fine. I will not be using the FE2 for critical work in the future. (besides, it sounds like a bucket of nails when you fire it) By the way, I have only seen a few 35mm shots from Ansel Adams, yet he used the format many times. Is there a compendium of just 35mm shots? It would be interesting to see how his methods translated to the small format. Dan > > > >Ansel Adams used first a Bullseye Conterex, then a Leica R4. The R4 does >not have mirror lock up and is well known for vibration problems, I don't >know anything about the Conterex. Ansel used the slowest films and >sometimes filters, which always put him in the deadly speed range... 1/15, >1/8, 1/4, 1/2 sec. because he used mostly f/22, f/16, f/11 for large DOF. >So his 35mm escapades were not very satisfying. > >Ansel also used a Hasselblad which does have MLU, which he used, and of >course, got exquisitely sharp photographs. After MLU in a Hasselblad 500C, >it's only a leaf shutter in the lens. Not much movement there. Especially >when locked onto a large wooden tripod. > >For 'scape type work, MLU on an SLR is an image saver. > >Jim _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com