Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/31

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Subject: [Leica] Portrait Lens
From: jbcollier at shaw.ca (John Collier)
Date: Wed Jan 31 16:27:01 2007
References: <C1E64F5E.ED53%heninger@adobe.com> <000901c7458c$59b48810$6501a8c0@asus930> <FE9CC6043B0A8DCD7AE7D4CF@scarborough.isc.org> <013B2C3D-4824-42A1-8547-6DA4180871F0@shaw.ca> <20070201000739.FBF0VVUH2R@priv-edtnaa06.telusplanet.net>

No problems there but you are getting further away and flattening the  
face. It all depends on what you are after. I like a rounder, fuller  
look ...unless the subject has a huge honker :-)

John


On 31-Jan-07, at 5:07 PM, David Young wrote:

> At 31/01/2007, you wrote:
>> Yes, I was going to pipe in with how wonderful the 90/2AA is until I
>> saw the M8 bit.
>>
>> John Collier
>
> Hi John!
>
> I'm not so sure I'd forget the 90 Summicrons...
>
> This was shot, two weeks ago, using a DMR (virtually same sensor  
> size as the M8 - crop factor of 1.37 instead of 1.33) and a pre- 
> ASPH 90 Summicron-R.  I did a number of casual portraits, that day,  
> and they work for me!
>
> http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/PH-6.htm

In reply to: Message from heninger at adobe.com (Wade Heninger) ([Leica] Portrait Lens)
Message from hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson) ([Leica] Portrait Lens)
Message from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] Portrait Lens)
Message from jbcollier at shaw.ca (John Collier) ([Leica] Portrait Lens)
Message from telyt at telus.net (David Young) ([Leica] Portrait Lens)