Re: [Leica] Etched 50mm frameline

["phong (Doan huu Phong)" <phong@doan-ltd.com>]

Hi Ted,

   Now you made me feel worse for having to cancel my spot
   at the Cape Cod seminar :-(

- - Phong

- -----Original Message-----
From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@islandnet.com>
>Hi Oddmund,
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>While you were away this spring my associate and I did a "50mm challenge"
>shoot on the city of Vancouver and used only that lens. A Noctilux on the
>M6 and a 50 1.4 Summilux on the R8.
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>The idea was to only use 50mm and to make the best pictures possible night
>and day.  Well when this happens to a photographer who has had the luxury
>of many lens and cameras for use at any time, it truly was a challenge for
>the first day. Frustrating at times to say the least. But then I settled
>down and began to look with 50mm eyes. :)
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>Then it was taking a little more time for compositional consideration,
>anticipation of situation and waiting for the "bodies to walk into the
>frame" . Slowly we began to shoot some very interesting images to the
>extent that some appeared to have been shot with wide angles (this occurred
>due to composition and using lines of subject to create the wide angle
>look.
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>We also had images that appeared as macro lens shots, simply by screwing
>the lens to it's closest focus point and working with very wide apertures
>dropping the backgrounds into a mush of colour. A very interesting effect
>when some folks viewing the images thought we had used macro's.
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>Taking ones time and being far more critical of elements within the scene,
>we found the 50mm lens a very valuable tool. Unfortunately it is dismissed
>by many photographers and relegated to the cupboard shelf in lieu of the
>35mm focal length.
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>ted
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