Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/20

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Mikiro's review
From: Mikiro <arbos@silva.net>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 13:23:02 +0100

At 7:53 am +0100 20/1/00, D Khong wrote:
>>Mikiro wrote:
>>"Summitar for memory; Summicron for reality"  Too
>>poetic?
>>
>>Not at all too poetic, IMHO. Isn't photography more memory than reality
>>anyway?
>>Too "artsy" a statement?
>>
>>Mark Rutledge
>>markrut@ticnet.com
>>
>
>Not too artsy. I have posted a Summitar shot in:
>
>http://content.communities.msn.com/Leicausers/PhotoAlbum
>
>under "50mm Images".
>
>You may view it and give your commenst.
>
>Dan K.

Good shot, Dan.
I hope I will be able to post mine, too. ;-)

An old pro, Shotaro Akiyama, writes that Summitar changes from "cotton" to
"silk" when stopped down.  He prefers this lens to Summicron when he shoots
women in kimonos.

Cheers,

Mikiro