[LRflex] Re: Good Photographers -&- Bad Lenses
- From: "philippe.amard" <philippe.amard@xxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:15:43 +0100
I love Shadow and Ice
And the lens is a keeper to be used when needed.
Thanks for sharing the insights
Bien cordialement de Metz
Philippe
Le 17 févr. 10 à 19:49, Richard Ward a écrit :
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> Ol'a Group,
> I was reading & rereading some of the equipment reviews over on
> "Luminous Landscape" - a wonderful collection of souls who do what
> they do and write what they write quite well, well worth a look. A
> line I read there just keeps coming back to me again and again. IIRC
> It was part of a review of the Sony A900 Full Frame dSLR and in
> regard to it's imaging quality versus the other full framer cameras
> it's up against. He wrote:
> "Ultimately, we're all just arguing over the price of Champagne in
> the Promised Land. They're all great."
>
> Along this line of thinking, let me present a couple of images from
> a lens I've grown to despise. It's an M42 mount Zeiss Pancolar 50mm
> f1.8 and it's been cast aside to serve as my 'lens lecture'
> prop. :-) I found these a few days ago I was adding images to flickr
> and I found some very nice ones I've taken with my 'despicable'
> Pancolar. Really made me think about my switch to the Summicron
> Fifty having been done for specific gains and specific benefits over
> what the Pancolar fifty was giving me. It was NOT because the zeiss
> was giving nothing of value.
> http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2782/4357969832_c452330ea5.jpg
> http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2793/4357221843_1ebd7c95ce_b.jpg
> http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2729/4357219797_25ff0246e8_b.jpg
> http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4017/4357964956_7a5277e8cd_b.jpg
>
> These all gave me GORGEOUS 8x10's.
> As long as my craft is as sound as it is in these images, shooting
> them with a Summi Fifty would be better, but it won't make these
> worse.
>
> Anyway
>
> Peace everyone
>
> Richard
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