Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>As a side note, any thoughts on PC lenses and their effectiveness vs >quality would be appreciated too. Dave PC lenses, in my small experience, are very sharp mainly due to the large circle of image but not very fast so there are not very usefull for general purposes. But for their main characteristic, shifting and, someone, tilting, they are very useful for architectural pictures. You need a tripod, a bubble for leveling, and a special screen for getting parallel lines and, very often if not always, metering before shifting; otherwise the picture is underexposed. 35mm is not enough wide and 28 is better for building pictures. The Canon 24TSE is rather too wide but has both shifting and tilting and, as you can crop the images is, with the EOS 1Ds, the perfect tool for architectural images. Well better tool is,the one I'm right now using: a Linhof Supertechnika with Schneider 90mm lens, but this belong to other much slower world; preparing everything, framing, focusing, metering, sliding the filmholder and taking the picture takes, for me, more than 30 minutes for every picture. Not exactly great productivity. But the pictures are great! I'm sure that you will enjoy your 35mm PC lenses, I got using it without tripod nor leveling: just point something at the same height that your camera, for instance the head of someone near the building and keeping this angle of the camera, presumibly horizontal, shift the lens until you get the whole building inside your finder. Need fast film as the lens is slow. I hope this can help. Kind regards Felix - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html