Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] sunny 16 (was: Leica lenses stopped down)
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 22:35:04 -0500

At 07:04 PM 5/4/98 +0200, you wrote:
>I agree that most of the leica lenses reach their optimum at f4 or f5.6.
>But for a lot of reasons, most of the street photographer like 400 iso
>films (TMY of TriX - no flame). Then, outdoor when the sun is shining, you

What makes you think that? Most? I don't know. I shot an indoor picture
today with my M6 that  I hadn't anticipated. I had 100 ISO neg film loaded
and was shooting at a day care center with my R4sP and 400 ISO neg film.
But as I was leaving, I found a scene that I just had to get. Just enough
time to whip the cover off my 35 Summilux ASPH and adjust the exposure,
focus and zip zip zip, had it. I would have been better off with ISO 400,
but then I wouldn't have the wonderful picture of one girl drying the tears
of another. (See the web page).
Drug kingpin Amado Carrillo Fuentes...died from nine hours of
liposuction and plastic surgery -- or, as it's commonly known here in
Beverly Hills, natural causes.

Bill Maher