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Subject: [Leica] leica photos
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (slobodan Dimitrov)
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:00:01 -0700
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After all these years, I still get wowed by a leica neg, or slide.
S.d.

On Sep 29, 2010, at 8:52 AM, kyle cassidy on the LUG wrote:

> Philiippe -- other cameras have distortion, what you see here is the 
> famous Leica Circular Focus (LCF), unique to Leitz lenses and one of the 
> ways you can tell a photo is made with a genuine Leica -- the lens is 
> constructed so as to draw your attention to the center, like the gravity 
> of the sun bends the essence of space with her powerful gravity, drawing 
> things into her orbit.  You shoot with some inferior camera, you'll get 
> barrel distortion. Choose a Leica -- your photos will benefit from the 
> LCF, people will be pulled into them and unable to escape the Pure Awesome 
> (PA).
> 
> 
> On Sep 29, 2010, at 11:44 AM, philippe.amard wrote:
>> Works for me - nice use of the (double?) barrel distortion - keep 
>> Leicaing Kyle
> 
>> 
>> Le 29 sept. 10 ? 17:02, kyle cassidy on the LUG a ?crit :
>> 
>>> 
>>> One from the Digilux project which is now almost entirely completed.  I 
>>> had 20 people from around the world send me a quote and I did a 
>>> photograph inspired by each of them. All in 1.5 megapixels of PURE 
>>> AWESOME on Bob Baron's old Digilux 4.3.
>>> 
>>> http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2010/velocity.jpg
>>> 
>>> it has a red dot, it must be awesome.
> 
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