Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/13

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Subject: [Leica] Leica M Monochrom
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:43:31 -0400

An Angenieux lens on my Gitzo Tripod.
The connector thingie is called a "camera". Its ok for those to not be made
in France. They just keep the film dark.

- - from my iRabs.
Mark Rabiner
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/


> From: Philippe Amard <philippe.amard at sfr.fr>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:26:42 +0200
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica M Monochrom
> 
> the client knew nothing; Angenieux ARE the dream lenses period!
> the rest is imagination or fantasy ;-)
> Philippe, father of two
> well, ang?nieux I mean
> 
> 
> Le 13 juin 12 ? 23:17, Sonny Carter a ?crit :
> 
>> Once I had just been delivered a new 9.5-57 Angenieux zoom lens for
>> our
>> production camera, and a client hands me a pair of pantie hose.  He
>> wants
>> me to put the over the lens to add a "dreamy quality" to the image.
>> 
>> I explained that once the dream is there, it can't be undreamed.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:01 PM, B. D. Colen <bd at bdcolenphoto.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>>> Thinking about the MM, I find myself wondering why one would pay a
>>>> $1000
>>>> premium for an already extremely expensive digital camera stripped
>>>> of
>>>> what, for me, is one of the greatest attractions of digital - the
>>>> ability
>>>> to think black and white, produce wonderful black and white
>>>> images, but
>>>> always have a color "negative." Shooting with a color sensor
>>>> allows me to
>>>> go back to my images years later and discover something that I
>>>> thought
>>>> should be a black and white image is, in fact, extraordinary in
>>>> color.
>>>> Yes, taking off the bayer filter allows for an otherworldly level of
>>>> sharpness. But photography, for me at least, is not about etching
>>>> with a
>>>> razor blade, it's about catching moments that show us things about
>>>> the
>>>> human condition we see every day yet fail to see because they are
>>>> so much
>>>> a part of our lives. I don't care about being able to count the
>>>> number of
>>>> fibers in the thread holding a button onto someone's collar, I
>>>> instead to
>>>> see the joy, or pain, in their eyes.
>>> 
>>> End of quite rant.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Sonny
>> http://sonc.com/look/
>> Natchitoches, Louisiana
>> 
>> USA
>> 
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