Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/30

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Subject: [Leica] Is it just me?
From: bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen)
Date: Thu Nov 30 08:19:41 2006

Prior to my trip to Somalia I had never owned or used anything wider than a
24, which I considered very wide. But the folks in Newsday's photo
department urged me to see if I could get a loaner of a 21 from Olympus - I
was using an OM4 at the time. I thought they were crazy, but requested, and
got, the 21 f2 - and was I glad I did. If there's only so much space in a
room, or you can only backup just so far, having the 'tool' that will get
you the view you want is, as the credit card ads say, priceless.

(Images 2,3,4 in the Somalia folder, under Photo Journalism at
www.bdcolenphoto.com - and, no, the lens isn't soft and the images aren't
out of focus - these are scanned from a crappy contact sheet ;-) )


On 11/30/06 10:31 AM, "Lottermoser George" <imagist3@mac.com> wrote:

> No one's blaming a tool. I'm simply noting that having a 16, 19 and
> 21 in one's tool box makes perfect sense to a craftsman who has found
> himself backed up against a wall and changing the lens allows him to
> make the image that he and the client wished for.
> 
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> george@imagist.com
> 
> 
> 
> On Nov 30, 2006, at 3:36 AM, Philip Forrest wrote:
> 
>> Don't blame the tool.
> 
> 
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