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Subject: [Leica] Jeffery PAW - Week 15 - Another lesson from HCB
From: bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen)
Date: Fri Apr 21 05:21:02 2006

Very Nice, Jeffery, and a killer lens. I've always argued that had Nikon
remained in the RF game, there would not only be no Leica today, Leica would
have died about 20 years ago.

Subject: [Leica] Jeffery PAW - Week 15 - Another lesson from HCB
> 
>> Last year, I picked up a Nikon S3 commemorative set on ebay. I
>> mostly wanted
>> the 50/1.4 lens as the new Summilux 50/1.4 asph cost twice as much
>> as I paid
>> for the Nikon body + lens. The new 50/1.4 Nikkor is *astonishingly
>> good*. If
>> Nikon wanted to put the squeeze on Leica, Voigtlander, and Zeiss
>> Ikon, it
>> could probably do it with some sort of commitment to chase the RF
>> marketthese days. And they would upset the balance badly by simply
>> offering the
>> 50/1.4 in M mount for a reasonable price. After all, Zeiss Ikon
>> offered no
>> fast lenses in M mount. But I digress.....
>> 
>> HCB's documentary mentions that he took portraits by simply
>> sitting and
>> talking with the person and then POW! He snaps the shot. I can
>> only really
>> do that with cigarette smokers who are banished from our buildings
>> and must
>> take refuge outside. The subject here, Tim Baker, is a very gifted
>> actor and
>> director who could make it big in New York or Los Angeles but
>> chooses to
>> share his talent with our students. I don't know if he was being
>> naturalhere or if he was acting, but I don't like portraits with
>> smiles, so this
>> one worked for me.
>> 
>> http://www.400tx.com/2006-15.html
>> 
>> Comments welcomed and appreciated.
>> 
>> Jeffery Smith
>> New Orleans, LA
>> http://www.400tx.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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