Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] passionate about film
From: Dave Rodgers <drodgers1@lightcurves.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 11:55:00 -0700
References: <200304251632.AA43057688@lightcurves.com>

Ted,

Thanks. Excellent advice. 50 is a great focal length.

I also noticed that I named this image dandilions when in fact it's of 
daffodils. Don't know what I was thinking.

DaveR

At 06:06 PM 4/25/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> >>> I love shooting manual film cameras. Somehow I see differently through
>Leicas. Sparks me creatively. Not neccessarily in this shot, but it'll pass
>for my latest PAW.
> >
> > http://www.lightcurves.com/images2/dandilions.htm <<<<<<
>
>Hello Dave,
>
>Here's a suggestion from an assignment I did a couple years ago on
>Vancouver, "Vancouver on 50mm a day." ;-) Every photograph was shot with a
>50mm lens. Either the Noctilux or the 1.4 50 Summilux on an R8 during a
>three day period dawn to evening..
>
>I shot daffodils wide open with the Noctilux in the rain and as close as the
>lens would focus and they were beautiful! Looked almost macro like, quite
>different looking slides. You might like to keep that one in the bag for
>another time as it produces photographs unlike anything one would expect
>from either lens, particularly the Noctilux.
>
>ted
>
>
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