Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/09

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Subject: [Leica] French girl near a blackboard...
From: amr3 at uwm.edu (Alan Magayne-Roshak)
Date: Fri Jan 9 10:45:10 2009

On Fri, 9 Jan 2009  "Seth Rosner" <sethrosner@nycap.rr.com>wrote
>----- Original Message ----- 
>>From: "Steve Barbour" <kididdoc@cox.net>
>> in an old school...
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/barbour/PAW+2009/domi.jpg.html
> >M8    Summicron 50/2 DR (mod'd)  at f2...

>Steve, I would love to have seen French [woman] near blackboard shot at 
>f/5,6, if possible. To see the difference in contrast/sharpness. Wide open 
>the DR's contrast is noticeably softer than curent Leica lenses; at 4 and 
>5,6 there is very little difference. Also interesting in this imge is the 
>effective focal length of the 50 Summicron - 70mm - but with the depth of 
>field/focus of a 70mm., to be exact, 69.2mm
>Seth
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Why would you need more sharpness or contrast?  This is such a nice picture
the way it is.  It has what the older photo publications used to call, 
"plasticity",
which used to be highly valued.
No harshness.

Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
UPAA POY 1978
University Information Technology Services
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/

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