Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Portrait Lens: Summicron, Elmar, Elmarit
From: "Jonathan Borden" <jborden@mediaone.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 15:27:36 -0400

A.H.SCHMIDT wrote:
>
>
> Jonathan Borden wrote:
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> > The Canon 85/1.9 is terrific :-))
> >
> > Jonathan Borden
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> Jonathan, You are right, it is a good portrait lens, but only if you use a
good
> lens hood with it.
>

    Yes, flare can be a problem if you are not careful, I should have said
that it is a terrific portrait lens *unless* you are shooting backit
subjects :-) Also interesting is that many people quite like the results of
portraits using the 3200 films. People comment that the grain gives a
'pleasing' effect which probably is due to its ability to remove fine
wrinkles. Using the combination of the 85/1.9 and 3200 film there aren't
alot of times when you need a flash.

Jonathan Borden