Re: [Leica] Leica lens book

[Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@pacbell.net>]

Mark

You are lucky.  Our local dealer never even heard of that lens book!

Jerry

Mark Rabiner wrote:

> I just searched the Archives i think for the first time ever for a
> thread which dealt with the new "Leica Lens Book. Leica M system, Leica
> R system" Didn't see nothin.
>
> I got mine a few weeks ago in the mail and have looked at it once or
> twice and been mainly impressed. In some ways VERY impressed.
>
> I recall someone mentioned the strange inside flap picture of Herr Cohn
> looking like one of the cast in "The Right Stuff" (one of my very
> favorite flicks for sure" he's got his coat over his shoulder and an
> American flag bokeh in the background. But if you look closely it's not
> a flight jacket but just a regular blazer type coat. And sunglasses I
> don't know which kind and from where and how cool. A pen in his pocket.
> I think Herr Cohn is doing a hell of a job but do they need to appear to
> be an American company? Like NASA? But what the hey...
>
> ...a bunch of black and white wide open hand held obviously Leica
> pictures pretty darn Artsy in this thing. Blown out highlights and
> overwhelming detailess blacks. I bet the original prints if there were
> any were not much better than what we see in this amazingly well printed
> book. Or brochure which is big.
>
> A study in Bokeh let me tell ya.
> So well put together and designed that they could have pictures of dog
> doo in there instead of lenses and I'd say "how much?!"
>
> Is this a new thing or did I finally measure up after buying i don't
> know how many Leica m lenses and bodies? Maybe becuase if filled out one
> of those little forms and sent it in. I wonder how many of these went
> out and to who.
>
> Gasp I just saw a color picture taken with either a black or silver 21 M Asph!
>
> Interesting they like National Geographic didn't go out with ten
> thousand watt seconds of studio strobes powered by a semi truck of
> generators. ... shooting K25 at f22. ... and be there. I don't think
> they don't make that stuff anymore.  ... or process it even if they did.
>   ... i know - they really do.
>
> Each lens has it's own page and picture. And you get to see what the
> lens looks like in both black aluminum and chrome paint brass.
> Its certainly the most concise grasp of what Leica has to offer lately
> then I've ever seen.
> "Hey Leica what's you offering lately?"
> "This"
>
> Left me wishing some of my lenses were chrome despite the weight. purrrdy!
>
> And R instead of M.
> That i was into the R system which looks way more interesting then my M
> system not because i already for the most part "have it." the M system.
> Been there done that.
> Or that the accompanying pictures are better. Also the pictures of the
> lenses are cooler.
> But the whole system looks great. Ground glasses are making a comeback
> in my heart.
> I know I'll TRADE IN my M system for an R system what the hell it's
> Wednesday and I'm bored.
>
> It starts out with the Leica super-elmarit-r 15mm f 2.8 Asph. And a shot
> it did of the antelope canyon which is pretty Artsy as it's just orange
> with stripes and a cloud but great perspective.
> The PC super Angulon R page and what it can do. I'd not kick that lens
> out of bed on a cold night!
>
> I got to look at my long desired Salgado-esk 60 macro Elmarit R for the
> first time relatively up close and sharp. I wonder if that's the lens
> which took the picture. Not that it could take a picture of itself.
> Probably the 100 macro though. On a Sinar. (No a 300!)
>
> The 80 1.4 looks handy and useful. I could probably get one or two shots
> with that one on an off weekend in the shade even.
>
> The 90 apo Asph R looks like the M put through a steam roller and on the
> facing page is a Coke can run though a steam roller and shot with the
> 100 macro which was a good choice for the subject matter when you're out
> and about shooting grab shots of squished Coke cans in the middle of the road.
>
> I did like the pictures of the lenses at least as much as the pictures
> on the bottom which they supposedly took. (Why not?)
>
> The apo Summicron R 180 takes a picture of a Red hot chilli pepper
> frontman with his shirt off and out of focus tatoos. I'd have hung all
> of Mr. T's gold necklaces on him or what's the point? Does this lens
> cost less than my house but more than my car?
> If so when can i trade one or both of them in for it?
> But they do make a 2.8 in case you are millionaire instead of a
> billionaire. Or thousandaire.
>
> All kinds of odd numbered telephoto glass. A 280 shoots sea lion faces
> the best shot I've ever seen of anything!
> And that modular system which I WILL turn to crime for. I'm sure it pays.
>
> I don't think I have a point. Just a spot with less hair.  What did
> anyone else think?
>
> Mark Rabiner
>
> Portland, Oregon USA
> http://www.rabinergroup.com
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