Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/06/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Looks great Lawrence! I always stopped my Rollei 35 which I still have down to f8 or f11 to make sure I got the thing in focus as its guess to matic focusing whenever I could. Would often miss my focus in a dark room wide open. But got better at it. Have been hoping for a digital version of the Rollei 35. The Sony Rx1 full frame is really quite a bit bigger than a Rollei 35 And really a bit bigger than the APS-C 1.5 crop compact cameras rapidly being introduced. Yesterday the Leica X Vario which was said to be an M. The latest one this month or week is the Ricoh GR, $797 with 28mm equiv mm 2.8. So we have a choice of Six of these APS-C 1.5 crop compact cameras now. But these so called Pro Compacts are all really in effect half frame. And a Rollei 35 was decidedly 24x36mm in a camera the size of a pack of cigarettes. And I think may pros for such a thing will wait for more Rollei 35 like full frame compact options. All six of these are APS-C 1.5 crop compact cameras Fujifilm X100s $1,299 Leica X2 $1,995 and the X Vario which I don't even want to think about for twice that for $2,850 Nikon Coolpix A $1,097 Ricoh GR &797 Sigma DP1, DP2, DP3 $999 ( and you'd think you'd have to spend a grand on a nice camera like this) On 6/12/13 10:56 AM, "Lawrence Zeitlin" <LRZeitlin at aol.com> wrote: > Yes. F8 at 1/125 and be there. Works for me. > > During the 70s I was a member of a National Academy of Sciences panel > on the best and safest techniques for extracting oil from offshore > drilling locations. I appended a lot of pictures to my reports showing > safe and unsafe practices encountered on oil rigs. No elaborate photo > equipment used. Most pictures were taken with a Rollei 35 on Plus X, > zone focused, set at f8 and 1/125 second. The camera was small and > innocuous looking and didn't intimidate anyone. No one ever asked me to > stop taking pictures. It might even be OK on the streets of NYC. > Here is an example, not great esthetics but adequate for the purpose. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/_22Tripping_22+the+drill+pipe+2.jpg.h > tml > > > Larry Z > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/