[Leica] Re: 90mm's

[don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)]

Walt,
Well, I hope that your lungs have recovered from your dedicated use of
crumpled cellophane.  I'll get one up in two to three weeks depending on
real job.  I try to do as much as I can in the camera and leave the light
room for modest adjustments.

Don
don.dory@gmail.com


On 6/7/06, Walt Johnson <walt@waltjohnson.com> wrote:
>
> One thing I stumbled on, and I can't even remember where or when, was to
> get all the detail in your negs and work out the complexion problems
> later. Back when Focomats and D2s were the uniform of the day a crumpled
> piece of cellophane from a cigarette pack did the trick lens.
> (sacrificing lungs for soft focus portraits is really dedication)
>
> Looking forward  to seeing what you get with your bag of tricks. I
> always buy used gear and did so even when I could afford new.
>
> Walt
> Don Dory wrote:
>
> > Walt,
> > You are all making this too hard.  I am going to Chicago tommorrow to
> > pack
> > up my daughter for the summer here in Atlanta.  I don't know what I will
> > have time to shoot so I will take the 24 and the 50 current L lenses
> > with a
> > couple of rolls of 400 and a couple of rolls of 50 for the blurry
> > stuff if I
> > have time.
> >
> > I plan on shooting in the barber shop next week and I especially want a
> > character study of Tommy the owner.  I will use the 85 F1.5 because it
> > has
> > great oof so the rest of the shop will show in the background but not
> > distract from the primary subject.
> >
> > Later in the week my mother in law will be in town for her quarterly
> > cancer
> > screen.  She is almost 80 so I will use the 90 Elmar wide open.  My
> > version
> > of the lens is sharp but doesn't cut the finer detail wide open so her
> > eye
> > lashes wil look sharp but the her skin will look twenty or thirty years
> > younger; almost like using a softar I.
> >
> > If you have been following my images you know that I can usually get a
> > sharp
> > image down to 1/8  with a 90 mm subject movement willing.  Sometimes the
> > light doesn't let me hold that high a shutter speed with a 2.8 lens.  So
> > going into those situations I will lug the heavier lenses in the bag
> > because
> > 1/8 at F2 is possible but 1/4 at F2.8 doesn't work very often.
> >
> > So, to summarize, most of the time I walk around with a bag full of
> > the same
> > lenses that everyone else walks around with.  Occasionally, there will
> > be a
> > specific situation that I know ahead of time will look better with a
> > different lens.  So I use that lens.
> >
> > I can do this because for the past ten or fifteen years I have kept my
> > ears
> > open for interesting lenses.  I bought the Russian lens from Dante for a
> > very reasonable price under $100.  I think that I paid $85 for the 85mm
> > Serenar.  The 90 Elmar was under $100 at a camera store in Kansas City
> > because the vulcanite was partially missing.  I found the current
> > Elmarit as
> > NOS here in Atlanta for $500 because the store didn't know what they
> had.
> > The 75 Biogon was $79 because the owner didn't think Exacta mount lenses
> > were worth anything(they are if you have an Exacta to FD
> adapter).  These
> > lenses have interesting charachter that can be used to advantage for
> > specific situations.
> >
> > Thanks for the conversation.  It is what makes the LUG interesting.
> >
> > Don
> > don.dory@gmail.com
> >
> >
> > On 6/7/06, Walt Johnson <walt@waltjohnson.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Don
> >>
> >> I approached your post with a reasonably open mind. You are an
> excellent
> >> ...
> >
> >
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