Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Alastair, I agree, what does not kill me makes me stronger. My plan for learning how to use this lens correctly is simple: to ask for educated advice from some of old pros here, take that advice into account and go out and keep on firing away until I get it right. Today, I took Ted G's, John C's and others advice and shot a roll using my Benbo Tripod along with a small spirit level. This is the first time I've used a tripod with a M. Regards, Greg firkin wrote: > B. D. Colen writes: > >> IMHO, the only appropriate answer to this question is a question: >> Why did you buy this lens? >> B. D. > > >> >> >> I wonder if someone could provide me with some newbie pointers on >> shooting with a super wide angle lens? >> I just acquired a Voigtlander 12 mm for my M6 from Dr. Yao and having >> never used any lens wider than 28 mm I'm finding the perspective >> provided through the supplied finder rather daunting. >> Regards, >> Greg > > > Well, Greg is probably like me: buy first and worry later ;-) I love > superwides. They are especially useful to give certain images > perspective. Portraits taken with a fisheye can look realistic and > give the image and the sitter a perspective of the overall scene which > no other lens can give. Architecture without a shift lens. Crowded > streets and interiors, close ups with enormous DOF and playing around > with the distortion to add some drama to an image are all ideas. I > don't agree that you have to always "know" what a lens does before you > get it. You may not like the results, but you can always say you have > tried. Starting with a rangefinder ultrawide is a bit harder, I think, > but you can always burn film as an alternative. Keep notes about what > you were expecting adn compare with the results. My suggestion would > be to start with portraits. Go to your local church and ask to > photograph the minister/priest, take him up on a balcony, place him in > the centre and include the whole interior as a backdrop have his head > take up about 30% of the shorter frame, and play around with angles > etc. You might like me suddenly not want to use a 90 for portraits again > Alastair Firkin @ work ;-) > http://www.afirkin.com > http://www.familyofman2.com > -- > 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