RE: [Leica] AF, a FAD?

["Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <peterk@lucent.com>]

Thanks Eric,

I agree, there is no substitute for a wide open/fast aperture when you want
to blow out the background.

Peter K

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> From: 	Eric Welch[SMTP:ewelch@ponyexpress.net]
> Reply To: 	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Sent: 	Tuesday, May 04, 1999 7:21 PM
> To: 	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: 	RE: [Leica] AF, a FAD?
> 
> At 09:33 AM 5/4/99 -0700, you wrote:
> 
> >Perhaps I want a blur, perhaps I am shooting MS100/1000 pushed to 800.
> >Maybe I don't want the whole background to be blown out and prefer an F8
> >aperture.  Photography like any art, is a subjective judgement of a given
> >opportunity.  Sometimes we blow it, sometimes we don't.
> 
> Peter, I didn't mean to attack, but express a different angle on it. I 
> guess I was a bit rough on you. Sorry.
> 
> But what you said, and in context of the whole thread, it sounded like you
> 
> were saying one lens being a good substitute for another. Maybe with you 
> want to do with it, that is the case, but don't expect an IS lens is just 
> as useful as a faster one because it's has stabilization. You may know the
> 
> difference, but the less experienced photographer could read your post, go
> 
> out and buy an IS lens and wonder why his pictures didn't turn out. We
> have 
> to speak to the newbies as well as the rest of the crowd here.
> 
> Eric Welch
> St. Joseph, MO
> http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch
> 
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