Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted, At 06:40 AM 5/30/00 -0700, you wrote: >Actually it has much to do with the fact you see your picture on the >screen isolated without lens lines or the all seeing viewfinder of the M6. > >I shoot my best colour with an R, accept when I'm working the Noctilux >by non existing light. ;-) And that's simply because I can isolate the >image in the R8 viewfinder and see how it will look when it's a slide. Yes, you have stated it exactly. I shoot slides (Kodachrome) almost exclusively and project them on a 60 x 60 matt screen with a P2002 Pradovit and 90/2.8 SuperColorpan lens. Very few prints - my wife has a sight problem and the slides work well with her. Actually in our small retirement apartment I can put the projector on the ledge in the kitchen and the slides just fill the screen and we can sit on a couch under the ledge to view them. It is better than the situation in the house we had before. A year or so ago I did shoot my granddaughter's wedding (keeping out of the way of the pro) with an M6, noct and 35/1.4 ASPH in B&W at 800 and 1600. It was very dark at the reception and I don't think I could have focused an R in that light. But I don't take that type of picture often. Nor am I a so-called 'street photographer' - although I do take pictures standing in the street <gr> So the R works better for me. Dick Hemingway Plano, TX