[Leica] Postcards from Detroit

[rhart76 at gmail.com (Roger Hart)]

Mark,

You are correct. As a newspaper and wire service photographer, the 180 was a
prime lens. I never went on an assignment without it. I bought an early 35
to 135 zoom that had a variable aperture, and I quickly got rid of it.

Roger




On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:

> .
>
> When I look back at my images the look of the key primes I've used over the
> years just jumps right out at me.
> Roger I bet its the same with you! You're looking at many of these shots
> and
> you're not GUESSING a shot was done with a 180. You KNOW it was done with
> the 180.
> As we feel with our experience with the lens to us the image has got 180
> written all over it.
>
> Sometimes the F stop jumps out at me too. Its like we have built in
> Metadata
> in your eye glasses and brains.
>
> I never had a 180 by the way most my friends did I had to make do with a
> 200
> f4. And zooms. In the 80's.
>
>
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
> > From: Roger Hart <rhart76 at gmail.com>
> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 09:31:51 -0400
> > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Postcards from Detroit
> >
> > While it would be easier today to find out what lens was used via the
> EXIF
> > data from a digital camera, Tri-X has no provision to record that
> > information, and it's left up to my failing memory.
> >
> > Thanks for looking at the book.
> >
> > Roger
> >
>
>
>
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