Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 Chris Crawford <chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com>wrote: >The 50mm Summicron is an excellent lens, but in real-life use on 35mm film, >it >really doesn't give better photos than the 50mm f1.4 Olympus lens I also >use. If you used Tech Pan, a tripod, etc. and made huge prints, the >Summicron is a little sharper. I don't shoot like that, and neither does >any other real-world 35mm camera user. -- Chris Crawford Fine Art Photography Fort Wayne, Indiana 260-437-8990 ==================================================================================================== I used to shoot like that, with my M3 and my Spotmatics. In the 1970's my personal project was to document my favorite old buildings, in case they were torn down during the urban renewal surge. I used the precursor to Tech Pan, H&W Control Film, and a tripod, because I didn't have a view camera or could have afforded to shoot as much as I did in 4x5. But you're right. I found satisfactory results from both Leitz lenses and the Super-Takumars (I made quite a few 16x20's for various displays over the years). In 1979 I also used H&W in one Nikon body and Kodachrome Type A in another to record some movie palaces in Chicago's loop (threatened with demolition) for our school of architecture. In one case, we couldn't shoot the auditorium, only the lobby and side rooms, because the movie was actually being shown while we were there with our Omni and Tota Lights. I loved that 28mm PC Nikkor. Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer UPAA POY 1978 University Relations University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee amr3 at uwm.edu http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt