Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/05/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I take grab shots in the street I just don't do it right in peoples faces. Of their faces. As I don't have a backup D700. The long standing idea on the lug that the high quality of Leica glass is waste of time much of it I think misinterpreting Erwin's wringing I find uncanny but amazingly hard to shake off. The fact of the matter is a soft lens will take a soft picture at any shutter speed on or off a tripod or with use of flash. But a sharp lens will take a sharper picture than a soft lens. In any saturation. Just because you are shooting with fast film or high iso' s with low shutter speeds does not not mean its not good to have the best lens you can afford. In music recording they call it over sampling. They may only be listening to 16 bits at their end but its going to sound a lot better if its recorded in 24 bits on your end. On 5/18/13 2:35 AM, "Frank Dernie" <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> wrote: > Hi Mark, > You highlight the dichotomy of M usefulness here. The irony is that it is a > small fast camera which can be used for handheld street shooting with fast > film/digital iso and often zone focussed. > Of course in these conditions the optical quality is almost completely > squandered. > And it can be used on a tripod with optimised focus on low speed > film/digital > iso where the exceptional optical qualities are displayed. I, like many > other > M users, use mine like that most of the time. I never go out at night to > take > pictures, and I am too introvert to take grab shots in the street. So the > only > real benefit of the M over the M9 for me is focussing my R lenses using an > adapter. My DMR isn't bust yet. > FD > > On 17 May, 2013, at 21:54, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > >> We can use an M like that; at its lowest isos on a tripod. >> Its just not so much its main thing. >> Its main thing is pretty much the opposite. >> Hand head at high isos getting fast breaking situations. >> To those people the new M is a very big deal. >> And the non higher iso's on the M9 a deal breaker. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/