Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have a friend who uses the Tri-Elmar almost exclusively with his and his fianc?e's M8s. He would whip out his Noctilux and 35mm Summilux-ASPH when the darkness arrives, but for most of the travel photography he does, he's like F4 and BE THERE. On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Lluis Ripoll <luisripoll at telefonica.net>wrote: > Thank you John, your comment is absolutely exact, it has a very smooth and > gentle reproduction of non focus areas. My indication was not with the > pretehension to receive kind comments as yours, it was only to ilustrate to > Ric that it can be a very useful lens in most cases, but I always keep and > use the fixed focals. > > Cheers > Lluis > > El 24/08/2009, a las 10:57, J. Newell escribi?: > > >> >> Beautiful pictures, Lluis. One thing not mentioned earlier is the smooth >> and gentle way the Tri-Elmar handles out of focus areas, which is in >> contrast to the somewhat harsh rendering of many of the ASPH lenses. >> >> >> >> John Newell >> >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Lluis Ripoll" <luisripoll at telefonica.net> >> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> >> Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 9:08:57 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Tri-Elmar? >> >> Hi Ric, >> >> I do a great use of the Tri Elmar with the M8, much more than >> previously with my "normal" film M's, I think there are two reasons, >> his limited speed is not a great problem with the M8, you can easily >> move to 320 ASA. Secondly I'm not a great user as you are of the 28mm, >> the Tri Elmar on the M8 give me as you say a short tele with the 50, a >> 50 with the 35 and a 32 with the 28, what is quite correct for me. The >> quality of the this lens is superb, but when I go to shot everywhere >> and I can found dark situations I'm more comfortble with my individual >> lenses. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > Lluis Ripoll > luisripoll at telefonica.net > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/ > http://photo.net/photos/lluisripoll > Blog: > http://lluisripollphotography.wordpress.com/ > > http://www.lrmusic.es > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Ken Iisaka first name at last name dot org or com