Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What is it about the Hektor which simulates so much talk about fish, water, and other game birds and flowers ;-) Mark Rabiner writes: > I've shot with two of these lenses. Still have my second. > I keep the head with my Viso system as I find it crucial to it's fun-ness. > > The first 135 Hektor I got from Camera World over the counter for 99 bucks > was a fish bowl when you get back from vacation. > The second looks not quite as sharp as my state of the art 2.4 APO Telyt as > you look at a contact sheet with an average loupe or look at a 8x10 > darkroom > print. Which is all the output I have to choose from from these optics as > yet that I can recall. > > I got the first 135 Hektor even before I got my first 90. > To see if the small framelines were a problem for me. > I took to them like a fish to a nice clean fishbowl! > > For 99 bucks how bad could it be? > And a "Portrait" lens can always be good old. > Although I don't subscribe to the theory of your lens being at least as old > as your subject. Find it chauvinistic and old fashioned. > I say just pull back. > Shoot it "far far away". > Meaning don't to tight headshots of problem people. > Shoot such portraiture from the waste up at least. > Why not? > > Or get real good at cloning from a scan. Which I am. > > The Head of a 135 Hektor takes to your Viso and bellows like a duck to a > clean pond. Strait from a daffodil to infinity! > Do not pass go do not collect 200 USD. > > > Mark Rabiner > Photography > Portland Oregon > http://rabinergroup.com/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information