Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/04/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]When I started my studio I got a loan and got a Hasselblad ELM with a 150 Sonnar lens. A Gitzo tripod and some Balcar strobes.. Before that I was doing well shooting everything with a 105 Nikkor on an FM with an MD-12 winder. It seems obvious the ELM with 150 would be the medium format version of that. It turned out to have complications. I never used a normal or wide on my seamless backdrops. Never ever. A short telephoto was really all I needed. And some less short. But for a few years though shooting some fashion and other stuff on location what was often needed was a normal. And for that I used my 80mm Zeiss Planar which was permanently built into my Rolleiflex. After a few years another loan came along and I got my 80mm Zeiss Planar CF for my Hassy. And a 50 Distagon. So I was a complete photog at last. A lot you can do with one lens though. A lot of work done in the 60's and 50's and before by pro photogs showing up with a Rolleiflex with its one built in lens or a speed graphic with one lens. The idea that you needed other lenes I think was not central to serious shooting. They were almost thought of as "extras". But older photogs will know better. On 4/13/14 5:34 PM, "Geoff Hopkinson" <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote: > George that echoes my own reaction ;-) Tortured by thoughts that my > complete M outfit liquidated might fund a body and one lens....maybe. But > then I wouldn't have a camera that does everything else that the M does so > well. First world problem! > My intent posting the sample of course was to say never mind the maths, > this is what the best Leica system can DO. Also managing to not transgress > in this thread and expose myself to the master's wrath ;-) > > > Cheers > Geoff > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > > On 13 April 2014 23:15, George Lottermoser <george.imagist at > icloud.com>wrote: > >> What's to be said? >> I viewed both. >> And thought, "fantastic resolution. great dynamic range. I WANT A LEICA S. >> what crimes could I get away with? should I sell the house? buy an S? and >> live out of a van? so many possibilities." >> >> a note off the iPad, George >> >> On Apr 13, 2014, at 3:04 AM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote: >> >>> Ditto mine ;-) >>> >>> john >>> ________________________________________ >>> >>> >>> i went for the practical contribution on this by posting part of a file >>> from the S. The reaction was deafening ;-) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/