Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Doug, Those portraits are truly wonderful...makes me wish I could have known him. The dappled light and the cat are million dollar extras! Any chance you can come down on Sunday for the Journalism School get together? t > From: Doug Herr <telyt@earthlink.net> > Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Date: 14 Nov 2001 09:13:34 -0800 > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] EOS out of running; now R8 vs. M - wife has spoken > > On Wed, 14 November 2001, "Zeissler, Mitch" wrote: > >> >> When I broached the subject of new SLR glass, she was very specific >> about what she would like to see if I pursued that direction. Leica and >> nothing else, as close to what we get with the M glass as possible [I >> *KNEW* that would make Mark Rabiner happy!]. >> >> When I scanned the images we captured using the longer lenses [90mm M >> and 135mm M glass vs. old 70-210mm Vivitar SLR, new 35-135mm ASPH Sigma >> SLR, and Canon G1 digital glass], the Leica glass won hands down. The >> Leica images were all much clearer, sharper and haze/flare free. >> > > If I didn't know better, I'd say your comparison of consumer zooms to Leica > primes was calculated to give the results you wanted :) > > In my case, She Who Must Be Obeyed reached the same conclusion when we > compared photos made with R primes to those made with Nikkor AIS primes. It > helps to use the new Leica glass on her projects; in my case it was the last > few months of her father's life: > > http://home.earthlink.net/~telyt/hans > > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > ___________________________________________________ > The ALL NEW CS2000 from CompuServe > Better! Faster! More Powerful! > 250 FREE hours! Sign-on Now! > http://www.compuserve.com/trycsrv/cs2000/webmail/ > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html