Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]George, I can and do use my Leica M for landscapes, and yes, have enjoyed looking over your website (nice tonality!). Let's say I was standing beside you on a couple of shoots, and here's where I'd want my bigger cameras: Window, Bodie I like the subject, but don't feel the converging parallels really contribute to the image, yet, short of gaining a higher vantage point, what's a person to do, sacrifice some of the already small negative? With my Hasselblad, I'm fairly comfy at levelling the camera, and simply cropping out the unwanted matter which results. With the 4x5, I raise the front standard a little, and I've got it. Trees (Folio One) This particular composition works nicely, but I also enjoy images which show the tops of the trees, and again, no converging parallels (I find these distracting sometimes, if too obvious). Here, the 50mm on my carefully levelled Hasselblad can do lots (wish I could afford a 40, which is why I may turn the lot of the H gear in for an M645 outfit), but again, the 4x5 makes shorter work of it, though it may involve a fairly hefty amount of front rise. True, the limitations of the small camera can be thought of as a creative challenge, but it's nice to have alternatives :-) Jeff - -----Original Message----- From: George Lauterstein <leicam2@flash.net> >Jeff, first, thanks very much for your reply to my query. But second, have >you examined the images at http://www.flash.net/~leicam2/index.htm ? These >WERE made with an M2. What does larger format have to do with it? My >point is that the Leica can and should be used for landscapes as well at >the "moment" images.