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Interesting article at Luminous Landscape

Diane B

New member
I just finished reading it Terry and had copied the URL to bring here--but you beat me to it LOL.

I agree about faster lenses, but I spent all day yesterday shooting with the little FD 35 f/2.8 in quite dark circumstances. I rather wish I had bought the f/2 and the 50 f/1.4 instead of using my old 50 f/1.8, but I got smaller lenses by choosing f/2.8 (or picking up maybe 1/2 a stop with the f/1.8 instead of f/1.4). The FD 24 f/2 is biggish (relatively) so again chose the f/2.8--but I really want the 20 f/1.7--AF (but wouldn't give up that MF assist for anything) and SMALL--and FAST.

Diane
 

Terry

New member
Yes, my 50 lux (f1.4) is quite nice on the G1 and the MF makes them so useable. But like you having the 20 (f1.7) with AF will be great. I know we need a macro lens so the f2.8 version will be welcome but at the same time I would have liked one longer very fast prime with AF.
 
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Ranger 9

Guest
I have trouble trusting a "writer" who doesn't know the difference between discrete (constituting a separate entity or part) and discreet (unobtrusive.) But his observation that some photographers obsess too much about noise at the expense of picture content was worth making.
 
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milapse

Guest
Yes, my 50 lux (f1.4) is quite nice on the G1 and the MF makes them so useable. But like you having the 20 (f1.7) with AF will be great.
I know I'll love the AF when it comes in the 1.7/20 but for the moment I'm in love with the following c-mounts:

-Schneider Cinegon 1.8/10mm (black tube)
-Schneider Xenon 1.4/16mm (black tube)
-Schneider Xenoplan 1.9/25mm
-Angenieux (B&H version) 0.95/25mm
-Schneider Cinegon 2/50mm

They are all really awesome one stop shy of wide open and very 'stylish' wide open! I'm getting very quick with the zoom focus on the G1 as practice builds... The GH1 can't come soon enough!

Speaking of psudo-macro... The Cinegon 1.8/10mm focuses to about 3-4 inches!
 
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monza

Active member
One really has to be discreet when shooting subjects as discrete as hotel windows and..uh...thongs.

Milapse, if you had to pick only one of those 25mm lenses, which one would be?
 

Brian Mosley

New member
Yes, it's been nice to see Michael coming in line with (my) reality wrt real world image quality over the last few articles. I wonder what he'll think of the new Olympus E-620?

Kind Regards

Brian
 
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milapse

Guest
One really has to be discreet when shooting subjects as discrete as hotel windows and..uh...thongs.
Good use of articulated lcd for 'below the waist'.. :rolleyes:

Milapse, if you had to pick only one of those 25mm lenses, which one would be?
Right now I'm giving it to the Angenieux @ F/2 (barely edges out the xenoplan and is easy to operate). It's also nice to have 2 more stops 'if needed'.
 
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