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Subject: RE: [Leica] Bouncing with the SF20
From: "Zeissler, Mitch" <MZEISSLE@gannett.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 04:40:16 -0500

Mark...

Yup; as I mentioned, with fast glass the SF20 can bounce.  With anything
slower than f/2.8, your bounce options with the SF20 dwindle quite
rapidly, unless you're willing to begin using a faster emulsion.  When
using the M6 / SF20 bounce combo previously, I had success with the
Noct, 50mm 'Lux, 21mm Elmarit and goggled 135mm Elmarit; all were used
wide open.  When I was using R gear, I went with the Metz instead, even
with the 85 f/1.4.

Regards,

/Mitch 

- -----Original Message-----
From: Mark Rabiner [mailto:mark@rabinergroup.com] 
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 6:25 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Bouncing with the SF20

Ah the only problem I have with this logic is "stopped down to F 2.8". I
have a roomful of lenses only a quarter of which can be "stopped down to
F 2.8" as the ARE 2.8. Or they are slower. You must be mainly into the
much faster glass and forget than most mere mortals OPEN UP to 2.8; not
stop down to it. I suspect or remember you have the 85 1.4. My first
lens on my first camera was a 2.8 so for some reason anything faster
than that I think of as "fast." On a normal or very short tele. Mark
Rabiner

I do have a Noctilux though and stopping down to 2.8 is stopping way way
down. 
6 clicks. 
3 stops. 
The "middle" of the lens f stops as they are engraved on the lens is
f4!! Kind of where you'd expect f8 to be there. (really)
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