Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- -------------------- Begin Original Message -------------------- Message text written by David Rodgers (drodgers@nextlink.com): " Doug, I just visited your site again. Doug Herr Sacramento http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/telyt Great stuff (admittedly, even that done with Nikon ). Isn't it amazing how well those old Telyt's perform. Here's a photo I took last summer at the Oregon State Junior Baseball Championships. http://beta.content.communities.msn.com/isapi/fetch.dll?action=show_photo&I D_Community=Leicausers&ID_Topic=51&ID_Message=441 I rented a Canon EOS 1 w/300/4 L one day and used my R7 and Telyt the next. I burned 4 times as much film and went through two sets of batteries with the Canon, yet I got more good pictures with the Leica; proving once again that AF isn't always neccessary. I just happened to have this shot on my laptop so I uploaded it (don't know why it was here. must have been an early scan). The Telyt was wide open and the SS was probably 1/2000th sec. I'm not too keen on this particular scan as the color is little off. Like I said, it was one of my first scans. However, It shows what the Telyt can do. I vividly recall that the kid got another belt high fastball on the next pitch and hit it over the fence. David " - -------------------- End Original Message -------------------- David, If my memory hasn't failed completely, you're using the 400mm f/5.6 with Televit, yes? My software here at home doesn't connect between e-mail and web browser so I'll have to look at your photo tomorrow at work. I used the 400 f/5.6 Telyt for a few months and was totally impressed with its optical performance and fast focus capabilities, and this from a 35-yr-old design! I've been cleaning up an image file made with the 400mm f/6.8 Telyt (the Great Blue Heron on my website) to make some big prints and the detail is simply phenomenal. I feel like I can identify each crumb of dirt and the DNA type of each blood stain on the heron's bill. Have you thought much about why the success rate was so much better with the R7/Telyt than with the EOS/L? Without trying to re-open the never-ending debate over Auto- vs. Manual-focus equipment, there are some aspects of manual focus that I find extremely helpful. The most important one is that I can use any part of the viewscreen to focus; combine this with a viewscreen that was actually designed for manual focus and I'm a happy dude. Doug Herr Sacramento http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/telyt