Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think for every example one can dig up with search engine finesse of a Mamiya 67 43 Biogon one can easily find a 100 flawless images taken with a 43 Biogon in a Hasselblad Superwide (SWC) on any search engine just by lifting your pinky finger. You don't really have to look they are everywhere. Just from the simple fact that so many Superwides have been made and then used by so many good photographers going back to the 1950's. Again its a legacy. On the other point while the Mamiya reeks with cheap mechanical build ( it just comes off like a cheap camera) the Superwide comes off very much as just the opposite. Its a gorgeous example of premium workmanship and design. There really is no overlap between these two camera concepts. They are like day and night. A plus the Mamiya 7 has amazingly is they still for the time being they at least actually still claim make them. Offset by the fact that while Superwides are not now being made new I'd not think they have been ubiquitous in any used camera department or rental for many many decades. They are a tried and respected classic photographic tool. They're not going to run out of spare parts. -- Mark R. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/ > From: Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 03:12:32 -0800 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: [Leica] Biogon SWC (lack of) distortion > > OK, I have always thought that wideangle distortion is a fact of physics, > e.g. circles appearing more oblong on the edges. Does the Biogon in the SWC > actually has no such limitation? > > This person seems to shoot with it, and even with the portrait and people > shots, there don't seem to wide angle distortion? I check Flickr and it > does seem the case? > > http://www.robertdphillips.com > > > -- > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information