[Leica] Another R option (now M9)

[photo.forrest at earthlink.net (Philip Forrest)]

Platon does it in the studio. 2 M6 bodies and if he has his assistants
along a Hassy with a bunch of backs.
Back in 2008 he photographed a bunch of Philly veterans for the New
Yorker. I was one of them. Got to talk with him and his 1st assistant
about photography. That's his standard kit.

Phil Forrest


On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:49:11 -0400
Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:

> 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
> > 
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> > 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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