Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And seeing what HCB did with that 50 shames us all with our multitude of lenses. "One lens, one body, one film." But shouldn't I take my ....... lens in case........? "No." Jesse Mark Rabiner wrote: > With a 50mm lens soldered to it. > But which one? > The new new could not be very HCBlike with ASPH elements and the whole bit. > The Summicron sounds like the closest. > Or they can get permission to use a Zeiss formula. > Ha ha ha ha ha ha. > He didn't just always use the Zeiss 50 he must have half the other times > use > a Leitz. Fifty fifty chance. > I don't think collapsibles were very HCBlike. > I'd come out with a fast f2 Summicron with the old outer casesing like they > did with that other lens. Which was a 50 was it not? Maybe that lens. > But weld it right on the body. > To encourage a much more HCB like look. > These people who try to rip off HCB with a 35 are out of their minds. > > You need a formal fifty. > To ripoff HCB. > A 28 on a Nikon FE-2 won't do the trick. > As plain as you can see. > > I say this from my own and most everyone I knows experience. > > It takes real concentration to shoot with a 50. Any old person can shoot > with a wide. You get it all in focus. What the hell. But the "formal" > feeling goes right out the window! > Or falls right into the mud puddle! > > And that "formal" thing is what HCB is all about. A lot of it. > > > > Mark Rabiner > Photography > Portland Oregon > http://rabinergroup.com/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >