Dangerous thoughts about glass, and a couple of questions

2009-10-11 Thread Larry Colen
Earlier tonight (actually last night, but I haven't been to bed yet) I was photographing a band at a dance, in challenging light conditions. I was alternating between my FA77/1.8 and my injured pfa50/1.4. I absolutely love my 77. While my 31 is more generally usefull, there is some quality about

Re: Dangerous thoughts about glass, and a couple of questions

2009-10-11 Thread Miserere
2009/10/11 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com: [snip] Question 1: What is it that is different about the 77 that makes it such an amazing lens for shooting portraits? From what I've gathered reading a number of secret internal memos and looking at the original optical diagrams...what makes the 77

Re: Dangerous thoughts about glass, and a couple of questions

2009-10-11 Thread Bruce Walker
Miserere wrote: 2009/10/11 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com: [snip] Question 1: What is it that is different about the 77 that makes it such an amazing lens for shooting portraits? From what I've gathered reading a number of secret internal memos and looking at the original optical

Re: Dangerous thoughts about glass, and a couple of questions

2009-10-11 Thread Larry Colen
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 03:18:45PM -0400, Miserere wrote: 2009/10/11 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com: [snip] Question 1: What is it that is different about the 77 that makes it such an amazing lens for shooting portraits? From what I've gathered reading a number of secret internal memos

Re: Dangerous thoughts about glass, and a couple of questions

2009-10-11 Thread Keith Whaley
Larry Colen wrote: On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 03:18:45PM -0400, Miserere wrote: 2009/10/11 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com: [snip] Question 1: What is it that is different about the 77 that makes it such an amazing lens for shooting portraits? From what I've gathered reading a number of secret

Re: Dangerous thoughts about glass, and a couple of questions

2009-10-11 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Larry Colen Subject: Dangerous thoughts about glass, and a couple of questions Earlier tonight (actually last night, but I haven't been to bed yet) I was photographing a band at a dance, in challenging light conditions. I was alternating between my FA77

Re: Dangerous thoughts about glass, and a couple of questions

2009-10-11 Thread Larry Colen
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 05:02:54PM -0600, William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: Larry Colen Subject: Dangerous thoughts about glass, and a couple of questions The DA*55 is the 77s ugly brother. It's big, it's plastic, it's kinda unwieldy, but damn, it's got some

Re: Dangerous thoughts about glass, and a couple of questions

2009-10-11 Thread Miserere
2009/10/11 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com: I'm sorry. Again I apologize for stating things unclearly. It's something that I was thinking about on my drive home from dancing, and I didn't get enough sleep (or any actually) before posting. I'm not so concerned with the mechanism of how it's

Re: Dangerous thoughts about glass, and a couple of questions

2009-10-11 Thread Boris Liberman
William Robb wrote: I recall posting about this just after I got my first 77. I thought it was an amazing lens for general photography, but I absolutely hated it for portraiture. After looking at many pictures that I shot with it, I decided that what I didn't like was, for lack of clearer