Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I am sending this message again because the last link was wrong on the previous post. I have been using a 50mm Summicron lately for some happy snaps ,as Ted would call them, and I am very impressed with the quality of the pictures. They have a smoothness to them which is very pleasing. My lens is a Canadian Made lens (ser 302201x), I think of the same formula as the latest Summicron . I have taken a few baby pictures with it at around F2 or so and find the results very pleasing. A recent picture of our five month old twenty pound (9 kg) baby is at the link below. http://home.iSTAR.ca/~robsteve/photography/images/Gordon/Gordon-jun15-99.jpg The top two pictures on this page were with the 50mm Summicron and AGFA Potra 160 print film. A nice lower contrast film that works great with Leica lenses. The family portrait of me, Gordon, my Mother, and Grandmother were on this film as well using the R8, some studio flashes and the 60mm Macro on an R8. Metering was done with the built in flash meter and a gray card. The pictures on the wall behind us are from my trip to Cuba, with my wife at a pool table and an old lady smoking a cigar. Some day I will post this image to my web site. All my prints of it are 11x14 and my flatbed scanner will not handle that large. The pictures of the Baptism itself were taken by a friend using a Nikon with fill flash. The Nikon lenses just don't have the punch of the Leica M lenses. http://home.istar.ca/~robsteve/photography/gordon_francis_stevens-3.htm Regards, Robert