[LRflex] AW: Re: Portrait with a 70 years old Leitz Hektor 73mm/1.9 on the G1

Philippe, 

>First link points to the cemetary of white elephants Peter I'm sorry to say.
Thank you for alerting me. Sorry for the wrong link and double posting although 
I do not quite agree to associating 
the DMR with a dead white elefant ...
Here the correct link for the Hektor images on the M6:

http://www.leicaphoto.net/discus/messages/7/853.html?1175995908

I repeat the link to the G1 Portrait with the Hektor :

http://www.leicaphoto.net/discus/messages/7/4694.html?1237836500

Cheers
Peter






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>Von: philippe.amard@xxxxxxxx
>Datum: 23.03.09 23:05
>An: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Betreff: [LRflex] Re: Portrait with a 70 years old Leitz Hektor 73mm/1.9 on 
>the G1
>
>First link points to the cemetary of white elephants Peter I'm sorry to say.
>
>Could you please repost your link?
>
>Vielen Danke
>Phili^^e
>
>
>pwerner wrote:
>
>>The Leitz Hektor 73mm/1.9 was produced from 1931 to 1942. It is a “portrait”
>>lens that produces pictures in a pleasant sort of 1930s softness and shallow
>>DOF. Color saturation is also much lower than on modern lenses; flare is
>>high if not controlled. It is a challenging lens to use, especially wide
>>open. Except for formal portraits, it is not very useful as a short
>>telephoto. 70 years after it was made, it is still interesting.
>>
>>At 6.3 or higher, it becomes sharper. See my pictures with the M8 at
>>http://www.leicaphoto.net/discus/mes...tml?1175995908
>>
>>Here a typical portrait: soft, low contrast, low color saturation.
>>
>>http://www.leicaphoto.net/discus/messages/7/4695.jpg
>>
>>Panasonic Lumix G1 - Leica Hektor 73mm @ f/1.9 - RAW, no postprocessing
>>except cropping and resizing for the web 
>>
>>C/C welcome
>>
>>Cheers
>>Peter
>>
>>
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