Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yah, but you weren't doing the shooting up on the fourth floor of my house sharing a bottle of single malt with Martin Howard when you did it! ;-) - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Eric Welch Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 8:12 PM To: Leicalist Subject: Re: [Leica] Focusing a 75 1.4 -- mitch's question on 07/17/03 8:54 AM, Kyle Cassidy at KCassidy@asc.upenn.edu wrote: > I had a 75 1.4 that I bought from b.d. about three years ago. I shot > about four rolls with it and NONE of them were in focus. Not a > testiment to the quality of the lens, simply a factor of focusing with > a razor thin DOF. I promptly sold the lens and continued to use the > russian 85 2.0. And I have shot rodeos with it wide open in extremely poor light and gotten photos sharp. It's all in the wrist. :-) Eric Welch Carlsbad, CA http://www.jphotog.com "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde - -- 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