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Subject: [Leica] OT: Another maybe not so stupid GH1 question
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:38:36 -0500
References: <daaeb97e1003252014q462910c5yefac14166cf0ae48@mail.gmail.com> <C7D1E3EE.60139%mark@rabinergroup.com> <20100326191416.GA29479@jbm.org>

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Jeff Moore <jbm at jbm.org> wrote:

>
>
> The GH1 with the pre-ASPH 35mm Summicron is a cute little package.
> That always was a sweet little lens.  I don't know if it's officially
> a pancake -- not sure what officially constitutes pancakeness -- but
> it certainly isn't more than a waffle.
>


The "yeah-but" here is that you are out there in portrait land angle-wise,
in that your 35mm is lika a 70mm with the dof of a 35mm.

I'm not denying it will be a wonderful picture taker, but you will have to
step back, way back, and you are only getting the succulent middle of the
lens.

That's not too bad if, like me, you often crop anyhow; just understand.
The Lika G doesn't see all that the Leica does.

-- 
Regards,

Sonny
http://www.sonc.com
http://sonc.stumbleupon.com/
Natchitoches, Louisiana
(+31.754164,-093.099080)

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