Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/15

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Subject: [Leica] Another R option (now M9)
From: richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:02:11 -0700
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I have shot with the m9 with studio flash.  It works fine. Unfortunately, it
doesn't support tethering so mostly I use the e3 for that need.
On Jun 15, 2011 6:04 PM, "Philip Forrest" <photo.forrest at earthlink.net>
wrote:
> 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
>>
>> --------------------
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> Photography
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
>> mark at rabinergroup.com
>> Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > 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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