Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ruben, The 35 Summicron has a curvature of field problem (instead of focusing on a plane, the lens focuses in a curved field). Shooting people, this actually helps as it tends to isolate the subject. In landscape work, the flatter field is better. Usually, by stopping down to F8-11 even a severly afflicted lens has enough DOF to render field curvature problems moot. Don dorysrus@mindspring.com -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Ruben Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 8:14 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] "Normal" lenses The curved field means no landscape shooting ??? did not get this part !! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Palmieri" <rpalmier@depaul.edu> To: <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 2:06 AM Subject: [Leica] "Normal" lenses > All - > > The recent resurgence of discussions 'bout 50's brings the following to > mind: > > For a long time my 35 4th gen. 'cron was my everyday walking around > lens. Something about 35mm lenses that doesn't get discussed much is > the fact that if you like to guesstimate field sizes without raising > camera to eye a 35 field is particularly good, because however far you > are from the subject, that's how wide the horizontal is. (After > juggling around arc-tan and realizing how hazy most of my high school > trig is, and finally calculating the not-so-obvious 53 degrees as the > above-mentioned field of view I realized that it's all actually more > obvious than I thought. Which means that I was just oblivious, or > something...) > > However, I was cropping those 35 shots a few times too many, and decided > to try some 50's. Ended up with a collapsible 'cron for everyday use > 9love it for its size)and a new-style Summilux for when I need people's > eyes to sparkle in the candle light. > The sliding hood drives me nuts, so a nice metal job is always sticking > out of the front. The 70 cm close limit and fast rack are really big > for me. The curved field means no landscape shooting. Haven't shot > color with either one... > > Bob Palmieri > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information