A delightfully beautiful young woman Louis! The light catches her almost perfectly! The soft focus adds to her beauty and a day at the beach!
Super job!
Dan
stgrove wrote:
A 35+ year old lens creates the softness which I also liked and why I use it sometimes. Super sharp is for millennials.
I have some gems that are 25+ years old and the glass is primo and the lenses are fine! I like fast lenses.New is not always the latest and greatest!
My 500mm is 35 years old and while it does not have IS, I can't shoot hand held anyway..so I'm good and the price was super cheap!
Leica's longest M manual focus lens is a 135mm. With adapter I sometimes use an old Mamiya 645 300/5.6 lens which is sharp in the center. As a result the M uses only the center of a large image circle 645 lens and does not suffer, but gives a nice reach not otherwise possible. Not sure the 35 equiv of that lens-but to could be 300x.80 or a 240mm.
Yes, a nice one. I've got my 40 Cron that is 51 years young, now. And, I used to have my M645 lenses. My 150/2.8 A was a fav. BTW, 300, still = 300 on the FF. It isn't the lens, it is the wider image circle, but if you're only using the portion of the FF, the FOV remains the same (per the sensor crop) ... just with a lot less vignetting from the larger projected, image circle.
RustyBug wrote:
Yes, a nice one. I've got my 40 Cron that is 51 years young, now. And, I used to have my M645 lenses. My 150/2.8 A was a fav. BTW, 300, still = 300 on the FF. It isn't the lens, it is the wider image circle, but if you're only using the portion of the FF, the FOV remains the same (per the sensor crop) ... just with a lot less vignetting from the larger projected, image circle.
My favorite which I sold (still wish I had not) was the Leica R APO 180/2.8. The model which could take the APO 1.4x.
