Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/01

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: What travel lenses (whither the 50)?
From: Jem Kime <jem.kime@cwcom.net>
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 08:43:25 +0100

Mike,
When I learnt (at college) that those interesting black lines around the 
clasic poictures by HCB and others were made by the film rebate showing the 
edge of the frame I decided to follow that ideology.
I only crop, maybe, 1 or 2 percent of pictures. I'd suggest that if anyone 
regularly crops then they're not getting close enough. And getting closer 
is different to getting a longer focal length lens.

Jem

- -----Original Message-----
From:	Mike Quinn [SMTP:mlquinn@san.rr.com]
Sent:	30 September 2000 20:44
To:	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject:	Re: [Leica] Re: What travel lenses (whither the 50)?

Although I subscribed to the theory that 35 and 90 are good enough for
years, I don't think it's true with the M-series.

Look at your 35 mm negatives. Do you crop them? A lot? If so, you need a 50
mm lens. There's a world of difference between 35 and 90.

No matter how good your lens is, when you crop and enlarge to get the image
you want, you're losing resolution. The more film your image takes up the
better your results will look.

Another irrelevant two cents,
Mike Quinn