Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Methinks the wrong URL? - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Dory" <dorysrus@mindspring.com> To: <Leica-Users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 7:51 PM Subject: [Leica] 135mm lens discussion > With all the comment back and forth about 135mm lenses, I thought I > would ground the discussion in images or at least an image. The below > image was shot with a 135 Canon Serenar, a kissing cousin to the 135 > Sonnar and the Soviet Jupiter design. > > In the original image you can see the beads of sweat coming off this > hard working athlete. The set up to the image is this runner is about > number eight of the women runners. Number nine is right behind her just > out of frame. She is sprinting as hard as she can for about another 300 > meters to the finish line of a 10K run. > > Pretty good work for an M3, 1.25X viewfinder, and a fifty year old lens. > Truly, unless 135 is one of your go to focal lengths, then any of the > Sonnar designs can provide outstanding performance for around $100 US. > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1611484&size=lg > > Now in plain text for the LUG. > > Don > dorysrus@mindspring.com > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html