Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]nfinityDT@aol.com writes: > I'm pretty familiar with George Lepp and his workings. > That kind of distortion is most evident with vertical lines near the > outside of the frame and Lepp is a nature photographer specialist, > birds and wildlife in particular, so his subjects are usually in the > "rule of thirds" area and the backgrounds are soft. His use of focal > lengths in the 28-135 range is only occasional, plus he's a big > proponent of the TSE lenses (24-45-90) so any landscape shots he's most > likely to choose one of those. I suspect he's used the 28-135 lens > *just* enough to satisfy his personal code of ethics so as to be able > to endorse it in print. Well it does tend to be rather obvious with *horizontal* lines in the same places, and personally I'm uncomfortable with seascapes showing a bent horizon (which I've seen in pictures taken with this lens). Unless they're taken from the Space Shuttle, of course. :-) I'm very *very* sceptical of paid endorsements, and only *slightly* less sceptical when the endorsee didn't buy the kit. David Morton dmorton@journalist.co.uk