Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thank you for the info and recommendations Tina. I didn't know but I had a suspicion and noticed the lenses you mentionned before. Your pictures and advises are convincing. Kind regards. Cedric 2013/3/3 Tina Manley <images at comporium.net>: > Thanks, Cedric! Some of the guys on this list can look at a photo and know > immediately which lens it was made with. I can't. I have to guess based > on which lenses I owned at the time, the probably focal length and the out > of focus background. I carried M6's with color in one and B&W in the > other. Usually, my Noctilux was on the B&W camera and the 24/2.8 was on > the color one, sometimes the 35/1.4 or 75/1.4 on B&W and 90/2.0 on color. > Almost always the fastest lenses on the B&W camera. That's the only way I > can guess what I used because I never took notes on equipment, only on > people ;-) > > You would not ever regret buying the DMR and/or the Noctilux! > > Tina > > On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Cedric Agie <cedric.agie at gmail.com> > wrote: > >> After seeing all your portraits taken with a Summicron 90 M and a >> Noctilux (Mosquito area) all wide open if I remember, and coming from >> you, your hesitation between Leica R and M's lenses is interesting. >> When our son was about 1 year old, we had a painfull decision to make. >> He needed a haircut. Just before going to the shop I took a few >> pictures with one of my Leicaflex SL's, a simple Leicaflex lens of >> 135mm f;2.8 and a Kodak color neg film. After a lot of horrified >> protests, cries and tears we came back home. I then took an M-6 and a >> 135m F:4 Leitz lens at the same place in shaddow (summer) of the >> garden, with a Kodak Neg film of the same type and speed. >> >> I enlarged all the pictures a few weeks later only to discover (glossy >> 8x10 inch) there was no difference at all between all the pictures >> (he's got blue eyes and blond hair), you could see all details of his >> face and hair, but no difference between the pictures taken with the >> reflex lenses and the M's. >> >> We have only one child, but I never sold any of my Leicas (Reflex R's >> or M's) and their wonderfull lenses. Instead I bought myself 2 brand >> new R-8. I hope to find a DMR one day. >> >> Because of you maybe one day I will buy myself a Noctilux. >> >> Admiring regards, >> >> Cedric >> >> >> 2013/3/2 Lluis Ripoll <lluisripollquerol at gmail.com>: >> > A really wonderful portrait with very nice bokeh, or in other words, DOF >> effect >> > >> > The R6.2 was a lovely camera, but finally I was decided go for the M6 >> > >> > Saludos >> > Lluis >> > >> > >> > El 01/03/2013, a las 17:28, Tina Manley escribi?: >> > >> >> PESO >> >> >> >> I think looking at the bokeh on this one that it was made with the R6.2 >> and >> >> 80/1.4 but I'm not sure. >> >> >> >> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/148999591 >> >> >> >> C&C? >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> >> Tina >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Tina Manley, ASMP >> >> www.tinamanley.com >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Leica Users Group. >> >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Leica Users Group. >> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > -- > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information