[Leica] Nikon forum advice (OT!)

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

Me too.

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


> From: John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 03:16:49 +0000
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Nikon forum advice (OT!)
> 
> Indeed, I mix spherical and asph of the same focal length for different 
> looks.
> My "core" set are all asph but many of my favoured shots were with
> spherical....
> 
> john
> ________________________________________
> 
> 
> I've come to a place where i accept that each lens design and/or sensor 
> design
> makes compromises and trade offs. Learning which tools to use to achieve 
> which
> effects has always been a large part of any craft. Transitioning from film
> through the quickly changing world of sensors with aspherical design 
> elements
> involves a learning curve - for both the hardware and post processing 
> software
> - very similar to the learning curves involved in getting to know films,
> developers, papers, enlarger lenses, early or modern lens coatings or even
> uncoated lenses. Sometimes it's frustrating - just as it often was In the
> "good" old days.
> 
> I've had and still have enough old glass with glow and bokeh to die for. My
> three M asph lenses (28 cron, 35 lux, 50 lux) beat the old charmers under
> most, but not all, conditions; at least in the look I'm after. The only
> exception is the 75 lux. When all goes right with that one - it's like the
> best of all worlds.
> 
> a note off the iPad, George
> 
> On Jul 9, 2012, at 8:16 PM, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> By the way, George, you had some incredibly creamy-bokeh shots posted the
>> other day, and one of them was with an aspherical Leica lens(!). It blew 
>> away
>> my bias that aspherical = bad bokeh.
>> 
>> I finally packed up my M8 and sent it back to NJ To get it working again.
> 
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