[Leica] Fast Primes, good...

[vondauster at earthlink.net (Will von Dauster)]

On Mar 25, 2006, at 9:29 AM, B. D. Colen wrote:

> Those are gorgeous images, Tina. And yet, over the years, you and I  
> have
> both seen similar sorts of images shot by photographers who, like  
> you, knew
> what they were doing, that were shot using 1.4 Nikon, Canon,  
> Minolta, Zeiss,
> Olympus, and, yes, Leica ( ;-) ) lenses. I would suggest that most  
> times
> when it's impossible to get the shot without a lens faster than 1.4  
> - and I
> stress most - the overall lighting is just so damn low and flat  
> that even
> with a Super Lens the resulting photo is just muddy and flat. Most  
> - stress
> on most again - of the time when there are splashes of light in the  
> dark, as
> in your photos, 1.4 will do the trick. But of course there are,  
> admittedly,
> those couple times a year that fall outside the mostness, and then  
> it's have
> faster glass or miss the shot. :-)

The current lack of fast primes is one of the reasons I hesitate to  
move from Canon to Olympus. The lack of a 10MP or better E-2 is the  
other...

Will von Dauster