Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/09/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Doug I really think if you did that you'd have an edge the other photographers did not have. As you are shooting medium format with all or most of the quickness of 35mm! They would have to all pack up their blinds and go home. An edge over the ones shooting full frame 24x36 Canon Nikon and and edge on whatever photographers shoot the much clunkier than Leica S Hasselblad medium format digital. This glass you are mentioning all sounds like my dream glass or close to it but I'd thought that some of the classic long Leica glass you were already using would cover to the edges of the S digital medium format. Perhaps the edge quality would really not be what we expect from quality or premium glass. It seems too good to be true and I cant think of a precedent. Other than 4x5 view camera lenes able to shoot 5x7. By the way I was just told by an expert the Zeiss Tele-Apotessar T CF 500 mm F 8.0 I'd dreamed about since I was 13 years old and has long not been made is a piece of total garbage. And he sounded like everybody knows this. I'm guessing you knew that therefore hence the extender on the 350mm I did see an older 500mm Zeiss Hasselblad on eBay last week for chump change. But probably garbage. Could be converted to a missile launcher perhaps. Or hung over a door for chin ups. On 9/17/13 3:41 AM, "Doug Herr" <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote: > Mark Rabiner wrote: > >> I was sold even before I saw the huge blow up. >> The richness of the small image is just like a small print from a medium >> format neg. ... noticeably better than one from a small format neg or >> slide. >> Those who say medium format film or digital is only needed if you are the >> mural biz I'd disagree with whole heartedly. As would a lot of people. >> >> >> On 9/16/2013 8:07 PM, Adam Bridge wrote: >>> This might be of interest. >>> >>> http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2013/09/lei>>> c >>> a-on-high.html >>> >>> Zoom in and you can see the football in the air just about the far 5 yard >>> line. >>> >> > > I recently calculated that if I sold all of my R equipment including both > the > 280mm f/4 APO and the recent, hard-earned backup 280mm f/4 APO I could > afford > a well-used S2, an adapter for Contax 645 lenses, a Zeiss 350mm > Tele-Apotessar, extension tubes and a 1.4x Mutar. It would do for 99% of > my > photos. The other 1% would be covered by a Zeiss Contax 645 120mm > APO-Makro-Planar. I have to stop calculating such stuff. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/