Krosavcheg wrote:
Tech: It is a really strange country. You know you always hear the saying "Japan - land of contrasts"...they always mean the obvious - old traditions and ways side by side with high tech. It is really country of amazing contrast, but in a completely different sense.
It's like living in USSR populated exclusively by investment bankers.
You know cognitive dissonance? The amount of discomfort your brain is exposed to here is truly mind boggling!
Oh, living in a world where everything is oversaturated makes old Europe, especially silent Scandinavian countries, really nice to consider. Some of my friends are forcing themselves to move abroad — who in Southern Korea, who in China, who in Japan, but as usual made-in-USSR-guy, I can't imagine myself living somewhere out of our idiotic countries such as Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. Mentality rules everything, but I'm trying to learn the way norwegians and swedes think. :/
lithos wrote:
Could someone post any image / experience with the vario elmar 80-200 f4?
I tried it once on 5D and it is quite sharp an contrasty with excellent colors. I must have some samples somewhere. Seemed quite long. It would be interesting to see it in comparison with Zeiss Vario-Sonnar.
Samuli Vahoonen has posted some Leica 80-200/4 shots of his Finnish landscapes, probably in the Alternative images thread. Very sharp, nice lens, with nice rendering, but he found it was missing that special Zeiss rendering, so he switched to the Contax 80-200/4 (which I now also own, based on his images made with it). The Leica is probably a bit cleaner wide open, and is just as competent, but it depends on preferred rendering. It is also much more expensive.
Technician wrote:
Oh, living in a world where everything is oversaturated makes old Europe, especially silent Scandinavian countries, really nice to consider. Some of my friends are forcing themselves to move abroad — who in Southern Korea, who in China, who in Japan, but as usual made-in-USSR-guy, I can't imagine myself living somewhere out of our idiotic countries such as Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. Mentality rules everything, but I'm trying to learn the way norwegians and swedes think. :/
I think it more depends on own mind set rather than actual country of residence, though I for one would never be able to survive in former USSR. Don't get me wrong - I actually liked the country a lot, despite certain particularities. When it went down, it became true merciless template of a capitalist society. Luckily I wasn't there at that point..
I understand your interest in Scandinavian mind set, but live there and you will get enough of it and will move very far away..I am afraid I will chose wrong words if I keep writing why..
You are familiar with Russian "Liberast" concept? Well, this would pretty much sum it up. That and egocentricity. Though, there is probably not a single country in the world not exhibiting it, so fair play to them.
At the moment no matter where you are, you are smack in the middle of consumerist mainstream H.G Wells outlined in his War of the Worlds:
They just used to skedaddle off to work--I've seen hundreds of 'em, bit of breakfast in hand, running wild and shining to catch their little season-ticket train, for fear they'd get dismissed if they didn't; working at businesses they were afraid to take the trouble to understand; skedaddling back for fear they wouldn't be in time for dinner; keeping indoors after dinner for fear of the back streets, and sleeping with the wives they married, not because they wanted them, but because they had a bit of money that would make for safety in their one little miserable skedaddle through the world. Lives insured and a bit invested for fear of accidents. And on Sundays--fear of the hereafter. As if hell was built for rabbits!
Term which ends with -rast in modern russian slang means something to blame from particular point of view. For example, 'liberal' means a man with liberal views, obviously. But if I call you 'liberast', then you may be sure that I do not respect neither your liberal viewpoints, nor you especially.
-rast ending was adopted from two forms of explicit word 'pederast' (or 'pidaras') which is a name of homosexual.
Pederast is used in Russian language as "fag" would be in used in American English, or "poof" in British English.
So, the Liberast is essentially, in the words of 4chan and other image boards would be a "moral fag".
Just for the reference...
Technician wrote:
Term which ends with -rast in modern russian slang means something to blame from particular point of view. For example, 'liberal' means a man with liberal views, obviously. But if I call you 'liberast', then you may be sure that I do not respect neither your liberal viewpoints, nor you especially.
-rast ending was adopted from two forms of explicit word 'pederast' (or 'pidaras') which is a name of homosexual.
Tech: you explained it much better than me.. a fail for me on not reading the all posts thoroughly..
100mm is about my favorite focal length - at least for what I shoot - and I have to say that of the six or so 100s that I have used, the Leica APO is the easiest to nail focus. It makes me wonder if yours has some issue with the adapter or internal element alignments.
100mm is about my favorite focal length - at least for what I shoot - and I have to say that of the six or so 100s that I have used, the Leica APO is the easiest to nail focus. It makes me wonder if yours has some issue with the adapter or internal element alignments.
Jim
Jim, It's just general. I can see occasional shots with APO 100/2.8 which are spot on, so it must be me. I had nightmare focusing Takumar 135. Easiest is probably 105/2.5 Nikkor, but I still miss many shots. Easiest for me is 21-90mm range.
