[LRflex] Re: leicareflex Digest V6 #26

Chris L wrote:



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*From:* Charlie Falke <chfalke@xxxxxxx>
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   Even now, I still think of reflex cameras a little bit as something
you use for long lenses,

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Not only.. For close-ups/macros 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. 
The same holds true, though to a lesser degree, when using 19/21mm lenses.

Chris


Chris,
  Yes, quite true, I just haven't headed that way, yet.
  I do have the 100mm Macro Elmar R on the bellows, which
works wonderfully. That was what was on the SL when I got it. But my wide angles are all M, except the 21mm 3.4 Super Angulon 
that you have to lock the mirror up to use.  I mostly use that on
the M-2 and M-4 as well, with an adapter.  The only zoom I have
is on the Oly, for now.
  I was confessing to archaic habits. :-)

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