Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/11/08

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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: nathan at nathanfoto.com (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Thu Nov 8 21:50:37 2007
References: <4268A9826B9DBE4D938B902A6BC8030826584D@exchange8.asc.local> <p06230900c356bc16746c@[10.1.16.129]>

Don't worry, Henning. They can have my car after I have taken a long  
drive with Taco--enough hairs to make a jacket for each 1000 km :-)

Nathan

On 7-nov-2007, at 1:53, Henning Wulff wrote:

> At 6:10 PM -0500 11/6/07, Kyle Cassidy wrote:
>> 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
>
>
> The lens (and the shot) are great.
>
> But what's with the $13,000 cat fur jacket? They might have found  
> enough cat hair on the sofas for one jacket, but I don't think I'd  
> want to leave my cat around there if the first jacket sold quickly.  
> They might try to satisfy demand at a higher rate than one per year.
>
> -- 
>    *            Henning J. Wulff
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In reply to: Message from kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy) ([Leica] dang! everyone looks like a star in the 85 1.8 (or the 75 1.4 if you can focus it))
Message 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))