Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/14
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At 12:17 AM -0600 3/15/01, onetreehillclw wrote:
>you can put a 77mm UV on the front!
>
>chris
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <ISILVERMN@aol.com>
>To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 11:39 PM
>Subject: [Leica] W-I-D-E
>
>
>> I'm about five rolls into the 15mm Heliar and agree - this lens is going
>to
>> take a completely new approach to visualizing. I'm looking forward to
>using
>> it for architectural and landscape photography. Also for
>forced-perspective
>> caricatures.
>>
>> Best of all, you can't use a UV filter with it!! ;-)
>>
>> I've generally shot at f/8 or f/11, and am excited with the DOF and
>contrast.
>> If there is any cloud activity in the sky, it gets VERY dramatic - the
>lens
>> seems to "pull' the entire sky towards the center. Definitely something
>to
>> work with here.
>>
>> On the flip side - if the sky is clear and too much is in the picture, it
>can
>> lead to a very boring photograph. And its all too easy to do with this
>> piece of glass. Filling the frame takes effort.
>>
>> I'm fortunate in that the second roll I shot with the lens was a series of
>> industrial photos of a 1000 HP pump taken indoors. No other lens would
>work
>> in the confined area available. Insofar as several were chosen for
>> publication in an in-house newsletter, the lens has already paid for
>itself.
>>
>> Slobodan - I'm looking forward to meeting you Sunday at the Buena Park
>Swap
>> Meet (anybody have a lens cap or shade for a Rollei 35?) I'll be wearing
>a
>> tan Yankee BB cap.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Ira Silverman
And what would you be fastening it to?
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