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Subject: [Leica] IMG's plus advice needed - Guy, girl, bokeh
From: leica at ralgo.nl (leica)
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:08:52 +0100
References: <CA487076-52A2-486D-88C5-0DC860728E22@depaul.edu>

Kwite rite.

Macho americano? Macha americana?

Bruce.

On 24-mrt-2009, at 20:59, bob palmieri wrote:

> Folks -
>
> After looking at George Lottermoser's wildlife shot on his blog I  
> figured I'd post a couple of Humans from last week.  In contrast to  
> the birds, I don't feel like color is particularly necessary for  
> determining gender:
>
> Guy -
>
> http://www.pbase.com/bobsworld/image/110451982
>
> Girl -
>
> http://www.pbase.com/bobsworld/image/110451983
>
> (Feel free to deliver comments, admonishments or jocular banter as  
> needed.)
>
> Both shot with my  daily M6 - 50 'Lux - Tmax 400 in Xtol rig.  Used  
> to be pretty happy with this setup, but there seems to be an issue  
> that I can no longer ignore.
>
> I threw these up a few days ago and noticed that the "Girl" shot  
> gets twice as many views as the "Guy" shot.  Must be the 50 (late  
> spherical) 'lux's Lemon Bokeh, which is all over the "Guy" shot.
>
> First of all, I'd like to know what causes this.  Is it a comatic  
> effect, an image of the aperture off-axis or something else?  I  
> guess it doesn't really matter too much, 'cuz it's clearly Here to  
> Stay with this lens design.
>
> I hesitate to bring up a topic such as this, but I'm really  
> interested in hearing some opinions on Fast Fiftys for M's.
>
> I basically like almost everything about my late-spherical 50  
> version.  These aspects include close focussing to 0.7m, terrific  
> ergonomics on the very-lightly-damped rings (with the fast-racking  
> helical on the focus ring I can beat most autofocus setups in dim  
> light.)  I wanna know if there's a 1.4 (or 1.5) 50 that can keep up  
> with most of these qualities (as well as high contrast and low  
> flare wide open plus acceptable focus shift ).
>
> The Nocti's are out due to weight and cost.  The versions of the  
> Leica aspherical I've tried had much stiffer focussing (and I  
> probably can't afford one of those either.)  So I guess it's all  
> about Zeiss (new or old), Voigtlander and Canon or Nikon LTM's.
>
> But if I can't find something else I may well become a member of  
> the Bokeh-After-the Fact club.
>
> Bob Palmieri
>
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