[Leica] dang! everyone looks like a star in the 85 1.8 (or the 751.4 if you can focus it)

[hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)]

Grinning at your catalogue text. Is there a section with trilby hats and 
bespoke camera bags for the Leicanistas? Did you try
actually moving the aperture ring on that 75 1.4 before you sold it? A 
couple of stops down like this one and the DoF would be
remarkably similar (and you wouldn't be a Nikonslacker).

Cheers
Hoppy

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FSubject: [Leica] dang! everyone looks like a star in the 85 1.8 (or the 
751.4 if you can focus it)

i just got a new 85 1.8 for the leica d200 -- this replaces a long line
of similar lenses -- i had the 75 1.4 for the leica but i couldn't focus
it to save my life -- they could have taken one of the elements out and
i'd never have known because all i ever got out of it was blobs of tri-x
grain. (i sold it after a week.)

anyhoo -- open up that 85, point it at an innoccuous person waiting for
a bus and kazam, they're a model

http://www.kylecassidy.com/trillianstars/model/lewinsky.jpg

this is my new favorite lens.

kc


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