Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Just got a 24mm Elmarit-M ASPH
From: Guy Bennett <gbennett@lainet.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 09:38:53 -0800

>Today I received a 24mm Elmarit-M ASPH in the mail.  I had a bit of film in
>my camera, so I took a few shots.  I learned 24mm is much wider than the
>50mm and 35mm that I usually use on the M6.  Of the ten or so frames I
>fired off, most needed to be cropped quite a bit.
>[snip]
>Robert


Ah, the joys of the 24 Elmarit! I agree with Nathan: it's an amazing lens.
That said, it does come with a bit of a learning curve. And like any
wide-angle, the fact that it does include so much of what's in front of it
makes it difficult to avoid clutter. I always use the external VF with it
so that I can see what I'm going to get on the film and what I'm able to
exclude, and even then I've had a few surprises.

One of them is exactly what Tarek has experienced: folks often don't
realize shots made with the 24 Elmarit were taken with a wide-angle lens!
People have frequently commented when seeing some of my 24 Elmarit pix: I
never would have guessed that you used a 24 on this one.

I've got a few old 24mm shots on the following site which, for lack of
time, I've never added to:

http://home.lainet.com/~gbennett/photography/index.html

Can you guess which ones? There was also one submission to the FOMII
project that was selected for the 1st year's crop taken with the 24:

http://users.netconnect.com.au/~firkin/FOM2%20Folder/YearOneExhibit/source/40.ht
ml

Got a few others here at the house. Stop by and I'll show them to you.

Guy
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