Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A 90 is a portrait lens, a short telephoto. Period. I'll take Capa's dicta over Small's - Capa's photography speaks for itself. On 6/5/06 10:13 PM, "Marc James Small" <msmall@aya.yale.edu> wrote: > At 08:57 PM 6/5/06 -0500, you wrote: >> Capa never said "If your pictures aren't good enough, you need a 90." >> >> Jeffery Smith >> New Orleans, LA >> http://www.400tx.com > > Jeffery > > We have never met in person but, trust me, I love you like a brother and I > look forward to the time when we meet in person. > > A 90mm lens is a wide-standard. A 40cm lens is a normal lens. Stay away > from the folks and let them live their lives. > > The next time some jerk photojournalist shoulders his way into my face to > take his pictures, he really will get an elbow in his jaws. You wide-angle > folks do not understand how threatening you seem to those of us who are > your targets. > > Capa's comment was cool for the time but was also full of BS -- President > Truman, for instance, directed that no one at a Presidential Press > Conference use a lens less that 50mm. > > Me? Now that I am retired, I do not expect to EVER appear again at a > public function. But I have done so on frequent occasion over the past > quarter of a century, and I have always told the Photo-Toads that I wanted > a 12 foot (3m) circle of safety and that I'd clobber them if they came > closer than that. They knew that I meant what I said, and I generally had > some hefty friends along to emphasize the point. > > You wide-angle guys are simply sick. Get back to a decent distance, let > the subject be okay, and shoot the picture with a 40cm Telyt. > > What YOU guys wish to do is to jam the camera into the jaws of the victim > and get a horrified response. Jam a camera in my face, and you will get a > horrified response, which will include the destruction of your camera. > > Wide Angle Dudes. Stay away. Learn long lenses. Understand that Duncan > and Capa were speaking for what scientists call "special circumstances". > > I detest wide-angle lenses as they defy the very reason for photograhy -- > documentig reality. Still, that 4.5/21 CZ Biogon did a hell of a hit at > the Bridge at Mull in Ireland back in 2001. > > Marc > > msmall@aya.yale.edu > Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information