Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Your own pix. -- Mark R. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/ > From: John Collier <jbcollier at shaw.ca> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:13:14 -0700 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Help with Nocti > > You want me to have someone photograph me taking pictures so I can prove > that > I photograph closer than 1 m? Perhaps a tape measure in the photo as well? > Do > they also have to be using a Leica camera? > > :-) > > John > > On 2012-01-23, at 7:41 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >> I think seeing your pix John would clarify everything. >> I think old days of the LUG are over with writing about cameras and no >> beef. >> Our beef is all on the internet now in galleries and websites. >> Its easy to see why someone wants to use a tele over a wide or needs fast >> lenses or macros when you just look at their pix. >> -- >> Mark R. >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/ >> >> >>> From: John Collier <jbcollier at shaw.ca> >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:12:34 -0700 >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Help with Nocti >>> >>> Hi Mark, >>> >>> If I'd known this was going to upset you so much, I wouldn't have said >>> anything at all. If you look at what I wrote, you'll find I replaced the >>> Noctilux (50) with a Summilux (50). I mentioned the Summilux (75) to show >>> that >>> it wash't the narrow depth of field that put me off. I very seldom shoot >>> with >>> a tele. I either have a 35 or 50 Summilux mounted 90% of the time. >>> >>> As to the why I bought the Noctilux, I shoot wide open a lot of the time >>> so >>> when a Noctilux came available locally, it seemed natural to try one out. >>> However, it was my first normal/wide lens that only focused to 1.0 m. I >>> use >>> the M camera because it is one of the few cameras that doesn't get in the >>> way >>> of what I see. It's just a plain glass window to the world. Up until I >>> bought >>> the Noctilux, I never gave the 0.7 m close focus limit a single thought. >>> The >>> camera just worked. After I got the Noctilux I found myself, after >>> framing >>> my >>> shot normally, frequently having to back up. Not all the time but often >>> enough >>> that I noticed. I don't want to notice my camera. I want it to >>> disappear. I >>> sold the lens. >>> >>> John >>> >>> >>> >>> On 2012-01-22, at 7:08 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: >>> >>>> One expects to see a portfolio in which the work revolves around 2 to 3 >>>> foot >>>> macro shots. Is there a URL? >>>> The issue to me is not why one SELLS a Noctilux because it won't focus >>>> to >>>> .7 >>>> of a meter but why one BOUGHT one in the first place. >>>> I should think the portfolio of a Noctilux user would revolve around a >>>> whole >>>> lot of low light shooting. >>>> Low light and close both? Not that's a bit original! >>>> I'm not sure how many low light shooters are also close in shooters. It >>>> seems to me the ultra low light macro field remains wide open. >>>> You are not using a 75 Summilux to shoot what? Where? >>>> I don't see how a short tele replaces a normal focal lengh lens >>>> Id have thought a normal would replace a normal. >>>> >>>> A normal which can feel wide when it needs to or tele with some inspired >>>> use. A 75mm lens is never going to feel wide. And I'd hate be the only >>>> lens >>>> on my camera.. If my main lens was not a normal it would be a wide. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information