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Subject: [Leica] Tri-Elmar?
From: ken at iisaka.com (Ken Iisaka)
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:18:54 -0700
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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.
>>
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>
> Lluis Ripoll
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>
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