RE: [Leica] Re: Useful discussion or black tape?

["Charles Cason" <cec@vbe.com>]

This email came with an attachment.  Was there suppose to be
one.  I have not opened it yet and wondering about it.  I
have never seen on a LUG note.

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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of
Jeff Moore
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 12:59 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: [Leica] Re: Useful discussion or black tape?


2001-05-18-17:21:58 Ted Grant:
> How many LUGnuts
> would consider using the R 100mm 2.8 macro or any 100 mm
lens, as a "normal
> lens?"  Or as a better than 50mm for a broad base of
shooting opportunities?

I'll have to try that.  I've gotten really comfy with 50mms
recently
(actually, I tend to gravitate towards 50mms among strangers
and 35mms
among people I've been introduced to -- doubtless there's
some
psychological insight there), but try every now and then to
knock
myself out of my too-comfortable habits.  I was really taken
with
Ted's story of limiting himself to a 15mm-or-400mm palette,
and wanted
to try something of the sort; but I lacked the full measure
of his
courage (and a 400mm lens) and besides, let's face it, I'm
just not as
good a photographer; so I made the range a little less
extreme.  On a
recent trip to Paris, I limited myself to a 24mm and a
135mm.  I'm
still digesting the results.  I think the 24mm pictures
tended to be
more successful.

(Okay, actually, I cheated a little bit: I dragged along the
Noctilux
for when it was dim, and I did have an 80mm along, too, but
that had a
Mamiya 7 bolted on its back.)

So I'll have to try wandering around with just an R8 and the
100 APO.
I don't use either nearly enough.