[LRflex] Re: leicareflex Digest V6 #26



Chris L wrote:




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From: Charlie Falke <chfalke@xxxxxxx>

   Even now, I still think of reflex cameras a little bit as something
you use for long lenses,

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Also on a reflex, Zoom lenses are an asset too. Versatile and helps composition sometimes. Some even use Leica glass and are really good, aren't they David? ;-) 
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/PAW-2oo8/2008-PAW-25b-20080614-P1050100.jpg.html>
A bad example with Oly 70-300 at 300


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Not only.. For close-ups/macros


Agreed
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/123516-2/Dandelion+-+Sunshine.jpg>
Macro Elmarit R



and for use with extreme wide-angles, SLRs have some distinct advantages.
For example, a 15mm Super-Elmar (on the SL2, won't fit the SL, as also the 19mm second version won't) is a very different animal from a Cosina-Voightländer 15mm on a rangefinder camera. The ability to get very close and to exactly compose and choose the foreground-background relationships gives very different results. 

Also agreed
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/151085-1/Oban+-+Scotland+_1+sur+1_.jpg>
Quick snap on a windy day - D-Vario Elmarit at 14
In short, an RF can do wonderful things, of which an R can do nearly all - silence and bulk/weight seem to me the only issues. Yet, they don't show in the pictures, do they? - and Rs can do so many things RFs are so tedious to try and perform with - thinking of visoflex here.... 
Bien cordialement de Metz
Phx


The same holds true, though to a lesser degree, when using 19/21mm lenses.




Chris

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