[Leica] I'm back

[leica_r8 at hotmail.com (Aram Langhans)]

Great shot, Mark.  You have a different way of looking at things that is 
very pleasing and challenging.

Aram

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From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 2:38 PM
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Subject: [Leica] I'm back

> Just back from a week in Portland Oregon picking out the real bulk of my
> stuff. As Zen a guy as I can be in this little apartment in Manhattan its
> like to have ones stuff.
> Like my 60mm 2.8D Macro lens which is on my camera now.
> My clogs. A bunch of CD's I'd not realized would easily fit on my iPod....
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/080517_195130.jpg.html
> or
> http://tinyurl.com/6qtn7z9
>
> I took this shot on the subway platform the year I got here 6 years ago.
> 5/17/08, 7:51:30 PM, in the subway platform NY, 24.0 mm f/2.8D
> Its  a double exposure blur effect special. I'll tell you about it later 
> if
> anyone looks at it.
>
> When I did a search for May 17th I see that this was the week I first left
> Portland in my Van with satellite dish on roof with dog. I got a shot from
> Tillamook where my car blew out on me and I was stuck there a few days 
> maybe
> I'll post those but I want to go outside and play. With my 60 macro.
>
> Somebody asked which are the key lenses for the R system and I've always
> said when this question has been brought up numerous times on the lug over
> the past dozen or so years the 60 macro.
>
> A big inspiration for me photo wise has been Sebasti?o Salgado and his 60
> was superglued to his Leica R6.2 during the film age. A longish normal 
> with
> the ability to get right in there like nobodies business and excel doing
> that.
> Mine would be the Nikon version of that lens. Only AF.
> And mine goes all the way to 1:1! A Feature I'm sure I've used never.
> I can take a picture of something which is 24x36mm's big!
> Most macros' only go 1:2.
> Its great to be back "home".!
>
> When I was just reading about Hassy H glass one tidbit I ran into was the
> interesting fact that they are not optimized at infinity like every non
> macro lens see the beginning of time (1839).
> But as working distances.
> So a guy was showing though test results that the Fujinon H lens can do
> better than my beloved Zeiss 100 3.5. As my Zeiss was optimized at 
> infinity
> (a long way away) and the Fujinon was optimized at "studio distance" which
> sounds to me like further waay than macro lens which I think is one meter
> away but closer than infinity. Which, lets face it, takes a long time to 
> get
> to by foot. And in a rocket ship you need to have that warp nine feature 
> an
> added extra few can afford.
>
> The same guy I'm sure others read this was saying the H glass was not just
> made by Fujinon and than the people who own Hasselblad used them for their
> camera system. But the Hassy people were real hand on on the glass design
> and mechanical design. A thing the were not about to do with uncle Carl
> (Zeiss). As he would have thought such input quite humorous.
>
> Oh at the holiday in in downtown and or NY Portland you can get emails but
> you cant send them.
> That's why no me on the lug the past week.
> I'm sure Brian was all set to close it down till I got back but got 
> elsewise
> occupied.
>
> I got my 80-200 4.5-5.6D back too! Its compact so I can just about do what
> I'd been doing will my old D200 and my 55-200. Only now with my D700 full
> frame. Something far away? I'm all over it....!!!
> An 80-200 zoom on a 35mm SLR has been one of the more useful hunks of 
> glass
> ever made for the format since the 60's.
> Gotta go or I'm never come back...
>
>
>
>
> - - from my iRabs.
> Mark Rabiner
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/
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