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Subject: [Leica] Portrait of Mom - 50/1.2
From: leica_r8 at hotmail.com (Aram Langhans)
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:03:24 -0700
References: <BLU139-DS1625AB6F593DDEB6905DB0B8C60@phx.gbl><BLU155-W159701F079F0501C15DA388DC60@phx.gbl> <CAG8EVmxwcKc9MT3ot3V0wQ=yJrm_DTFPdO-Pv_Zk1P35RFRGsA@mail.gmail.com>

Action shot???  At 92, they are hard to come by.

I agree.  I included it because I thought the second one was a bit too much 
like "here, look this way" snap kind of shot.  But I do like the second one, 
too.

Aram

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From: "leo wesson" <leowesson at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 10:35 AM
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Subject: Re: [Leica] Portrait of Mom - 50/1.2

> Aram,
>
> I think I would like the first one better if there was no straw.
>
> Leo Wesson
> Photographer/Videographer
> 817.733.9157
> www.leowesson.com
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Jean-Michel Mertz 
> <j2m46 at hotmail.fr>wrote:
>
>>
>> Beautiful portraits, I like n?2 particularly.Jean-Michel
>>  > From: leica_r8 at hotmail.com
>> > To: lug at leica-users.org; LeicaReflex at freelists.org
>> > Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 20:19:00 -0700
>> > Subject: [Leica] Portrait of Mom - 50/1.2
>> >
>> > Dug out the 50/1.2 Nikon and strapped in on the D7000 for these.  They
>> were shot at 1.2, and 2 respectfully.  The f-stop does not record
>> accurately on the D7000 for this lens for some reason.  The lowest that
>> will show up is 2.0 and when stopping down, it always shows the next
>> smallest f-stop, so 2.0 shows as 2.8, 2.8 shows as 4.0, etc.  Not sure if
>> that can be adjusted.
>> >
>> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/su12/m/untitled-3135.jpg.html
>> >
>> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/su12/m/untitled-3130.jpg.html
>> >
>> > Vanishing thin depth of field at 1.2. Been a while since I tried this
>> lens as my rate of accurately focused shots indoors was dismal, but there
>> was enough light coming through the window at Kidd Valley I think I got 
>> the
>> focus pretty good.
>> >
>> > comments and criticism welcome.  View large.
>> >
>> > Aram
>> >
>> > Aram Langhans
>> > (Semi) Retired (retarded?) Science Teacher
>> > & Unemployed photographer
>> >
>> > "The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin
>> himself would ever have dared dream."   James D. Watson
>> >
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In reply to: Message from leica_r8 at hotmail.com (Aram Langhans) ([Leica] Portrait of Mom - 50/1.2)
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