Dear Aram,
thank you for your kind comments. I absolutely agree -- weddings are
nerve-wracking (and it's not even mine!). Not something I would do for money,
and I take my hat off to those who do it for a living. The toughest thing for
me was getting good exposure in frequently shaded areas while trying to ensure
the bride's white dress does not get blown.
The E-1 viewfinder is good enough for manual focusing with the 50mm Cron (due
to the 100mm effective FOV), but it becomes harder with the 28mm. If I ever get
serious enough to do semi-commercial work I can see how a Canon might come in
handy for the low light performance, though -- the E-1 is quite noisy above
ISO200. Personally I like it, but others often beg to differ.
Cheers,
Amri
--- On Sat, 1/3/09, Aram Langhans <leica_r8@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Aram Langhans <leica_r8@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [LRflex] Re: A traditional Malay wedding
To: "leica reflex freelists" <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, January 3, 2009, 11:39 PM
Amri.
Now if that were true, there would be no good wedding
photos before the advent of autofocus... Perhaps the E-1 is
not the tool for the manual lenses to be used on... A good
old Leica R10 would be nice, or if you can't find that,
perhaps the R9.2 diesel would do in a pinch.
They look fine to me. Interesting. I thnk the casual one
of the couple laughing is priceless. #2 and #3 are also
well done, as you have selectively focused on one part of
the frame that perhaps would have been more difficult or
time consming with an autofocus system.
have photographed weddings for friends and former students
and they are nerve-racking. It has been many years and I
don't think my wife would let me attempt it again, even
though the photos all came out just fine, and it was more
than they were ever going to get if I did not do it.
Aram> Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 20:53:24 +0000> From:
ruhayatx@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [LRflex] A traditional
Malay wedding> To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Hi
all,> > a good friend of mine got married recently and
asked me to take the photos. A few are posted on my Flickr
page:> >
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32905356@N03/> > This is
only my second attempt at doing weddings, so perhaps using a
manual lens and no flash wasn't such a hot idea! :) But
I managed to get some good ones, although I do think that
the Summicron-R 50mm deserves a better sensor than that of
the Olympus E-1 I used.> > Cheers,> Amri> >
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