Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/11/06

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Subject: [Leica] dang! everyone looks like a star in the 85 1.8 (or the 75 1.4 if you can focus it)
From: kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy)
Date: Tue Nov 6 15:11:09 2007

i just got a new 85 1.8 for the leica d200 -- this replaces a long line
of similar lenses -- i had the 75 1.4 for the leica but i couldn't focus
it to save my life -- they could have taken one of the elements out and
i'd never have known because all i ever got out of it was blobs of tri-x
grain. (i sold it after a week.)

anyhoo -- open up that 85, point it at an innoccuous person waiting for
a bus and kazam, they're a model

http://www.kylecassidy.com/trillianstars/model/lewinsky.jpg

this is my new favorite lens.

kc


Replies: Reply from hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson) ([Leica] dang! everyone looks like a star in the 85 1.8 (or the 751.4 if you can focus it))
Reply from henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff) ([Leica] dang! everyone looks like a star in the 85 1.8 (or the 75 1.4 if you can focus it))
Reply from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] dang! everyone looks like a star in the 85 1.8 (or the 75 1.4 if you can focus it))
Reply from jshul at comcast.net (Jim Shulman) ([Leica] dang! everyone looks like a star in the 85 1.8 (or the 75 1.4 if you can focus it))
Reply from luisripoll at telefonica.net (Luis Ripoll) ([Leica] dang! everyone looks like a star in the 85 1.8 (or the 751.4 if you can focus it))
Reply from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] dang! everyone looks like a star in the 85 1.8 (or the 75 1.4 if you can focus it))