Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Enjoyed the pics of Ed's 87th bash. Send Lastman out west and we'll put him in a pot! Regards, Greg J. Lorenzo Calgary, Alberta Johnny Deadman wrote: > > sick of my panoramas? check out this stuff from Honest Ed Mirvish's 87th > birthday party which I reported on a month ago. It will make you yearn for > the normality of distorted 360 degree panoramas. > > http://www.pinkheadedbug.com/portfolios/mirvish/index.html > > most of this stuff was shot I am ashamed to say (yeah, right) on my Canon > T90 with a off-brand 24mm lens, but some of it is the 28 on the Leica and > maybe even one or two on the 35. > > shooting with the T90 is very different from shooting with the Leica, not > least because it goes BANG CLICK WHIIIIIRRRRR, at which point people ask you > which newspaper you are with. However the camera is a total pleasure to use. > I keep it on manual. > > I found the 24 on the T90 *far* easier to use than the 25 skopar on the > Leica. I can't bear not being able to focus even at f/11 on a 24, and the > skopar viewfinder is ridiculously inaccurate. I guess I should try a 24 > Elmarit and a Leica vf one of these days. > > The Leica images are of course much sharper up close but I was yearning for > a 24 that day and the T90 was the only solution. > > bouquets/brickbats welcome > > -- > John Brownlow > > http://www.pinkheadedbug.com > > ICQ: 109343205