Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]henry wrote: > > > I've always heard that the Mamiya 7 lenses are blazingly sharp, but > >what about the other characteristics? I'm interested in how the bokeh, > >transition from focus to out of focus, and color perform on these > >lenses. Are the first two less of a problem because the lenses are so > >slow? Inquiring minds want to know... > > > >Isaac > I think they look like modern Leica glass like the 35 ASPH Summicron, > etc. in terms of the overall rendering. High praise... couple this with the fact that the M7 is a very quiet camera and it may be a great landscape camera... I don't own one, I rent one > fairly often, as needed. The 65 is just spectacular. So is the 80. I did > a group picture of 700 people using the Mamiya 7 and a 65 - all of them > fit on the 6X7 area and all were totally recognizable! Never seen such a > negative. Actually I pieced 3 negs together so there were probably only > 500 on the center negative - anyway it was pretty amazing. I've not used > the 43 but I'd like to. I hear it is spectacular as well. Some day I > might own a 7 and the 43 and 65. For now I can rent far cheaper. For me > its a special use camera. I kinda feel that way about medium format in general... I prefer my 4x5 if I'm going to put something on a tripod, if I handhold, the Leica usually wins out. > > Its a bit sketchy using these cameras as if they are big Leicas. I find > the focus at close range (which is not very close, thats another issue) > to be just barely good enough for wide open up close work giving far more > mis-focus shots than a 35mm camera. Its just the nature of the beast. > Stop them down a bit and don't push the close shooting. For a > travel/scenic camera for maximum walk-around quality this could be the > champ. Does sound good... Isaac > > Henry