Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]----- Original Message ----- From: "GeeBee" <geebee@geebeephoto.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: 21 October 2005 08:29 Subject: Re: [Leica] Pitching for a job > > Action with a rangefinder :-) > > Leica M6 and almost certainly 50mm DR Summicron (cropped) > Week #31 > http://www.geebeephoto.com/Leica_PAW_2002/index.html > > Canon shmanon :-) > > --Graham > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Ha! It was shot with the 35mm Summicron. Found this in the archives in response to the question 'was it cropped?' : "Huge crop. Imagine the neg lined horizontally and vertically in thirds and what you see is the middle rectangle or to put it another way, one ninth of the neg. I took two shots with the 35mm which was the lens I had on as I approached and this was the second shot of two with that lens. Yes I know, what kind of doofus shoots sports action with a 35mm lens? Answer, this doofus. I switched to the 50mm Noctilux and got a little closer for the next three shots and as a consequence these are about one third of the neg. Yes I know, what kind of doofus uses a Noctilux in full sun? Answer; this doofus. I do have a 90mm and a 135mm but I wanted a few bankers in focus before I got ambitious.Then calamity, the exposure meter 'crapped out' (thanks Ted for the graphic description). Although I have a hand held meter in the bag and I am perfectly capable of getting acceptable results in such circumstances with no meter at all, I stopped shooting? What kind of doofus stops shooting when the pickings are so rich. Answer, this doofus.To say I was depressed by the meter failure is an understatement bordering on the supernatural. Right there, right then, I could have cheerfully packed in photography and taken up croquet. The bad news for the PAW haters is that I'm over it now :-)" The Noctilux sequence referred to is long gone into my 'oldest on the bottom' cupboard filing system. --Graham