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Subject: [Leica] When in doubt DON'T ask photographer
From: philippe.amard at tele2.fr (Philippe AMARD)
Date: Tue Jan 15 10:51:59 2008
References: <200801150115.m0F1Dwaj031082@server1.waverley.reid.org> <1200421637.478cfb0595c36@panthermail.uwm.edu>

New subject says what researchers keep saying.
pinch of pepper Philx



amr3@uwm.edu wrote:

>Quoting Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com>
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>>>Walt,
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>>I saw a lot of wide-angle obsessive compulsives in the 70's.<<
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>Count me in to that group. And I never grew out of it. I hate digital
>>>because the crop factor feels like it's constricting my field of view.
>>>
>>>DaveR
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>About the most popular lens with Canon users is their 10-22mm and Nikon the
>>12-24.
>>f 12mm and be there!
>>I now feel like I need something wider than the 21 for when I shoot film
>>with the  Leica M.
>>It will be the 12mm from Cosina with the Voigtl?nder brand name on it.
>>
>>http://www.nikonusa.com/fileuploads/pdfs/awards_pdfs/12-24_awards.pdf
>>Mark William Rabiner
>>markrabiner.com
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>>
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>I'm obsessive-compulsive in the other direction.  For the kind of personal
>pictures I like to take, [on film] 50mm is my wide, 35mm seems like a super
>wide, and my eye likes 90mm best.
>
>Alan
>
>Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
>University Information Technology Services
>University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
>Office Phone: 414 229-6525 | E-mail: amr3@uwm.edu
>Department Phone: 414 229-4282
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/
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