Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'd love to read the article, too... the soft black seems to be an artifact of the .png format which for some reason displays lighter on a PC than on a Mac. This is antithetical to the norm, which is that pictures done on a Mac look murky on a PC. I was surprised by the washout when I looked at the page from my office. on 9/6/01 12:54 AM, Peter Klein at pklein@2alpha.net wrote: > At 07:13 AM 09/04/2001 -0700, Dante wrote: > >> http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dante/paw/settimana.html >> >> [snip] >> There is only one picture of any merit. Can you tell me which? >> [snip] >> There are a couple indicating to me that a clean 50/1.4 Nikkor-SC is a >> world-beater. > > Dante: I like all three 50/1.4 pictures. But "Olga on Friday night" is the > real eye-grabber. Nice shot! If you work on "Olga" further, I'd go for > some real rich, deep black tones in the shadow area of the dress at lower > left. I might also crop out the gray stripe at the extreme left edge of > the picture. > > My perfect-glass 50/1.4 Nikkor SC is at DAG's having a CLA. Our Northwest > so-called summer is about to end, so I hope the Nikkor comes back home > soon. I'm looking forward to shooting with it wide open. Those photos > remind me that it's nothing to be ashamed of, even if it isn't made by Leica. > > An article on the LHSA site on the collapsible 50mm Summicron compares that > lens to the the 50/1.4 Nikkor, and mentions a full article about the Nikkor > from the 1996 "Viewfinder" #2. Would you (or anyone else on the list) have > this article? I'd like to read it. > > --Peter Klein > Seattle > > >