Re: The Hatrack

At 30/12/2006, you wrote:

David Young showed:
Subject: The Hatrack
This shot, heavily cropped and hand held with the 80~200/f4 Vario Elmar and 2x converter, was shot on Fuji Superia, the only film available in my small town! 

See: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/ and click on "featured photo".<<<
Well done David a fine critter to say the least!:-) However a very fine photograph indeed. :-) A keeper as it looks on the screen.
Once again illustrating the quality of the 80-200 f4.0 lens. For my money this is one of Leica's sleeper lenses and cuts film or digital as sharp and crisp as all get out! Even with the 2X extender it's a smashing great lens. "WIDE OPEN!"
Anyone who is anti-zoom and or anti-extenders are fools having that attitude until they use this particular lens. Like I say, it's right there at the top of the list for quality film and digital image cutting. 

ted
Thanks, Ted! Because of the extensive cropping, the shot is not likely good for much more than a 4x6 - perhaps a 5x7. But I agree... a keeper it is!
And, I cannot agree more... the 80~200/4 Vario is a superb lens, by any standards. What never ceases to amaze me is the quality of the lens (or any lens) with my old SL vintage 2x converter! (It's total lack of cams explains the wide-open use... the max aperture of f8 is really only a secondary consideration!)
Mind you, in "the great basement flood of '02" the converter was soaked. Gerry Smith and his boys, at Kindermann, did a full clean and realignment and, after that, it was visibly better than when I got it! It still vignettes a wee bit, with the 400/6.8 but that vignetting is outside the sensor area of the DMR, so, for me, it's perfect! And, it does not vignette on any other lens I have. :-) 

Thanks for looking.

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David Young,
Logan Lake, CANADA

Wildlife Photographs: http://www.telyt.com/
Personal Web-pages: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt





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