[Leica] Another R option (now M9)

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

Well you can  use the M6 for general commercial photography and I have.
But its first job it street photography.
I've shot hundreds of rolls in the studio with white seamless and a 90 with
one. And I'm sure I'm not the only ever who has done this I just cant NAME a
person who has. Its far from the obvious choice but it did work out for me
for that effect anyway. I liked watching the flash go off in my viewfinder
for a change but smaller frame lines make it a less of a choice. And bottom
line I'm shooting with a 90 APO ASPH instead of a 105 2.5 Nikkor. And the
obvious smarter choice would have been to use the 90 APO ASPH on an R.
Its really way more of a street camera than it is a fashion catalog camera
(like the S2) or portrait studio camera.

Underwater camera? No clue.
Space camera?  Don't think so.

Mark

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> From: Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:28:44 +0100 (BST)
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Another R option (now M9)
> 
> Some people used it as a street camera with B&W but it was much more than
> that, 
> and I would be -very- surprised if it was the first job by any means.
> FD
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, 15 June, 2011 13:23:53
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Another R option (now M9)
> 
> John the M's first job is a street camera. A photo journalism camera. And
> that work had been done with tri x or Neopan 1600 in black and white.
> If for some reason the M6 could not have gone over iso 200 it would have
> been dead in the water before it ever got off the ground.
> Now digitally the anti has been upped a bit from that.
> 
> Mark
> 
> --------------------
> Mark William Rabiner
> 
> 
>> From: John McMaster <john at chiaroscuro.co.nz>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:51:58 +1200
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Another R option (now M9)
>> 
>> Ditto, if the M9 had comparable IQ to Canikon I would not have spent the
>> extra to buy it. I suspect that I am not alone in not caring about high 
>> ISO
>> usage, I rarely went over 200asa (Tri-X) on film so 640/800 in the M9 is
>> fine.
>> 
>> john
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