Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, actually, there is a Barnack digital. It produces wonderful images and uses lenses going back deep into the 1930's to the present. Lenses from illustrious firms like Zeiss, Nikon, Canon, Olympus, Schneider, Angenioux, Taylor, Reid, Leica camera, and many others. I went to the Gay Pride event today with the Barnack digital and six lenses in a tiny Domke bag. No weight really and marvelously flexible. I even saw one used for $4000. Go ahead, fear not for it works marvelously well. On 6/23/07, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > > > > On 6/23/07 8:46 AM, "Christopher Birchenhall" < > crbirchenhall@googlemail.com> > typed: > > > Mark > > > > I was out yesterday with my M4-P with a slide film (not yet finished) > > and a D80 - a bit bigger than the D40X - with a Sigma 30mm f1.4 > > standard lens. The kit is somewhat bulkier than a Leica M but it is a > > useful companion to the M's. I only shot 16 photographs with it and > > about 20 with the M. It was a dull wet day but here are a couple of > > results that print pleasantly to A4. Not show stoppers but I am sure I > > will be making more use of this combination. > > > > http://tinyurl.com/35pgz7 > > > > http://tinyurl.com/2q5t57 > > > > > > I was looking at the Sigma 30mm f1.4 last night and it strike me as a very > Leica like approach to shooting digital with a more compact digital > camera... than bloated tupperware zooms. > > > I see the Sony body out now in their new system absorbing Minolta Maxim in > the 1.5 crop circle format is the same size as the D40 or smalllist Canon. > And I repeat Leica needs not only a DSLR but a compact DSLR of this Leica > like Barnack size. Or I say poo poo to them! > > Today I go out with my 24mm AFD on my camera and a 50 1.8 in my LowePro > 100 > sling. If I was using my 200 sling I'd also bring my 85 1.8 AFD for more > reach in the fast department. Just about any zoom dwarfs my new body and > makes it a negligible advantage. Even the kit lens the 18-55 one of my > favorite Lenes on my D200. > > My silver 45 P is hard to turn and well... Silver. > > Nice shots but for ASA 200 I'd be planning to for sure be making 17x22's. > I like the thing where you set auto a and if your shudder speed drops > below > where you pre decide it to be then your ASA increases. Especially in an A > or > S not P configuration. > > > But back to the lens I see it ways 15 ounces an once shy of a pound. > For glass which shoots back to a 1.5 crop image circle that's plenty roomy > design. > > My 1.8 AF Nikor weighs. .34 of a pound that's at least half that. And had > a > 52 not 62 filter size. And legendary specs. > > http://nikonimaging.com/global/products/lens/af/normal/af_50mmf_18d/index.ht > m > > I'm more than happy to focus it myself in my spare time. > > > > Mark William Rabiner > Harlem, NY > > rabinergroup.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Don don.dory@gmail.com