Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/101030_153405.jpg.html It was before Halloween. The war was over. And there I was walking through Spanish Harlem clicking full frame pix on the way back from a Doc appointment. I thought I was in the Hamptons. Everywhere there were very classy very odd pumpkins spewing out into the sidewalks. Which if they get odd enough are called "gourds". But there were glittered and spray painted. My first pro level camera I got in 1972, I was 21. It was a very good year. Instead of a Nikon F which would have been expected of me I got the just out upstart Nikon F2. Eyebrows were raised. And instead of a 50mm 1.4 or f2 I got the just out with an article in my Nikon magazine about it: 45mm GN 2.8 pancake blitz lens. So I walked around with that combination for several years. I carried with me wherever I went a set of Tiffin close up "filters" 1,2 & 3 Dioptor so I could focus closet than 3 feet which I often did. It stopped down to f32. Which I often shot it at in events. With a Metz flash set at half power manual. F 32 and be there. I don't have to worry about thing to find one for nostalgia sake as I never sold it. Still have it. I can still use it on an FM body I still have. But not an FE-2 which I later mainly used. I cant use it on the new digital cameras I don't think. But Mister Kobayashi in his wiseness but mainly coolness had the whim to re introduce the lens for Nikon. And that happened right as I went digital, getting a D100 in July 2003. The new 45mm P had been out since 2001. http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/nikkoresources/50mmnikk or/index9.htm Or http://tinyurl.com/2uuust I love normal lenses but a 50 on a 35mm camera is not normal. They can feel like you're working with a short telle. The breathing space afforded with the 45mm lens I find quite noticeable and useful. 43.4 is normal. And that fact that its a pancake makes the camera with lens fit flat right in my Domke satchel bag. Its very non unobstreperous. I like it. I've returned home. Have found redemption. My MOJO is on the way. -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ mark at rabinergroup.com Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb