Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:23 PM 8/30/97 -0400, you wrote: > >I'm jealous of Ted because he has a 15mm Leica R lens and knows how to use >it. Maybe I could afford one if I stop feeding our two dogs... > > >Richard I was very lucky. A few years ago, a camera shop bought out the inventory from a small camera shop chain that went out of business. They didn't pay a per item price, they paid a single price on the lot. The manager of the buying camera shop is a good friend of mine. I got a new 15mm R lens for $2500 and a new 180mm 2.8 for $1200. Every once in a while the lens gods smile at you. Make the gods happy, keep feeding those dogs. I know we've been down this road before, but the 15mm R lens is an amazing lens. It's very hard to explain, to someone, the possibilities with this lens. The fact that it's rectilinear makes it a dynamite tool. In one of my books, I have a picture taken with the 15mm. There is absolutely no way to tell that it was taken with the 15mm lens. Used correctly, it can make a closet look like a ballroom, a small recital at a local civic park, look like a rock concert in NYC Central Park. Even though it's not a lens that you use daily, it's a lens that can make you look like a genius. It's also a "how did you do that???" lens. To me, this lens is not a novelty (like the 16mm fisheye), it is a real lens. A real tool. Awesome is the only word that can describe it. Jim