[LRFlex] Re: FS: Leica 28 F2.8 PC SUPER-ANGULON-R

Tom, very useful practical info.

Side note . . . Guy lowered the price to US$1475.

Happy shooting!/Scott Gardner

--- Thomas Schofield <tdschofield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Someone BUY THIS LENS!!!!!  I already have one, and was scared to death when
> I couldn't find it, unitl we reorganized our bedroom.  It is FANTASTIC!  
> Optically, and in use.  Many think of shift lens as a special lens for
> arcitecture.  NOT SO!  I use it for landscape.  You probably don't realize
> it, but every time you point your 28 or 24 up to get a mountain or tree, the
> subject is distorted, making it thinner as it goes up, just like straight
> lines of a building converge.  Using a shift lens makes those majestic
> mountains and trees look as majestic as you see them in person.  Same thing
> with a downward shift into a canyon! 
>  
> I developed a realy fast working style with it.  When I use a tripod, I would
> put a bubble level in the hotshoe.  Point the camera for horizontal
> direction, then level out the bubble, and lock down the ball head.  Turn the
> shift screw to frame vertically.  With the R8 set to mirror lock up.  1st
> clis of the shutter release raises the mirror, second click 2-3 seconds later
> releases the shutter.  Done.   You can handhold it, too, but the above
> technique with a tripod is faster than tring to align everything by hand.
>  
> It's a Panoramic lens too!  Another technique, which I have shot some images
> with, but haven't yet scanned and photoshopped, is to set up as above, aiming
> for the center point of the desired panorama with the lens set at no shift. 
> Shift all the way to the right (or left) horizontally for frame one, then
> shift all the way to the left (or right) for frame two.  There's a lot of
> overlap, but when the images are assembled, mechanically or combined in
> photoshop, all of the points will line up!  This is because the film plane is
> remaining in the same position.
> 
> Convergence tools in software don't work as well as correcting in camera. 
> When yo use software, it stretches the image out to a hey-hole shape, and
> then you have to crop the image to make a rectangle out of the key-hole
> shape.  The trouble is that since you cna't see this in camera, you have no
> way of knowing whether you have framed correctly for post-processing so that
> you won't clip corners.  For example, if you take a picture of a building
> without a shift lens, then straighten the converging lines in softare, the
> top of the picture is wider, and the bottom of the picture narrows, so you
> may not have enough foreground to fill the width at the bottom.  This is not
> an issue with a shift lens. 
>  
> Erwin did a nice review on the optical quality, but not so much on
> applications! 
>  
> I have no interst in this transaction, just a fan of this great lens. 
> Interestingly, I noticed you can order the lens through B&H with
> interchangeable mounts, but no mount is listed for Leica.  Maybe that's an
> agreement Leica has with Schneider.
>  
> Tom Schofield
>  
> 
> Scott Gardner <scottgee1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am NOT the seller, but have corresponded with him and he has a good
> reputation. The lens offered is relatively rare on the used market so I
> thought someone here might be interested. It's posted here:
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/3hsfk
> 
> and his direct contact address is:
> 
> guymancuso@xxxxxxx 
> 
> Enjoy!/Scott Gardner
> 
> 
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