Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/05/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]<<BUT, as I've said here before I'm hung up on backlighting using this glorious AZ sun that we have in such quantity. I get off on backlit cactus species. >>> Hi Roger, I hadn't thought of looking at any lens in this fashion before and low and behold you have taught me something that had not even entered my miniscule mind before. Thanks a bunch, as I generally think, "Leica OK that's great they do everything! :) Obviously you have made me think more about what and how I'm using my glass and in the future, let me assure you I'll be looking a little harder at results as opposed to speed. Even though I sometimes bitch about the techie stuff, and I beleive I've said this before, that I have learned far more about lenses and hardware than I ever thought mattered during my career by being in this LUG. If I Keep my mind open and off my usual look at equipment and photography I can hnestly say this place has made me think more about the value of certain equipment over another. One lens over another. An old dog can always learn something new and a bunch of tricks to boot! :) We, you and I understand each other much more than we think we do when one or the other jumps a tad quick. At least we don't seem to hold any grudge one onto the other. :) Thanks for making me see equipment on a broader scale than I have ever done in the past. Like you I really get off on backlighting and that form of accenting use of light, but it never occured to me that one lens of the same focal length over another would make it look even better. Damn you, now I have to seriously start looking at the aspherical lenses! :) Thanks from my bank manager! :). ted Victoria, Canada http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant