finally, I decided , and bough one today!!!

[wen]

hello,

I wanna say thank you for everyone who has helped me earlier...I was struggling on which lens to go for my very 1st leica lens...I battled between 28/f2, 35/1.4, an 35/2. today, Leica had the demo, and I went check it out, and bought 35/f2 black...I was thinking of getting the chrome first, but they are out (the body is chrome)...

I was thinking of getting the 35/1.4 first, but, just notice the price is highter last year, therefore, I end up with 35/f2 🙂

after almost a year without lens...finally, I got the lens...today!

thanks so much for all your help!!!

wen

 

[Magus]

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[rover]

Well, you did it right, you went and tried before you bought, good luck with it.

 

[peter_n]

Yes Wen. That's a great lens and I'm sure you will love it. Don't forget to post a few pictures in your gallery here!

 

[Captain]

Black lenses fortunately go with both chrome and black bodies.

 

[tajart]

i think the 35/2 asph is one great lens.

 

[wen]

hello, Magus, I believe it is ASPH 😉

it is going to be my first leica experience (except digilux 2)...I am looking forward...

thanks so much, y'all

 

[wen]

re: how you shoot???

re: how you shoot???

hello,

sorry, here is a question again...yes, I got the lens (35/f2 asph)...and ready to shoot...1st leica experienced every (except digilux 2)...so, I went out, shoot couple...and the way I shoot is looking through the the window and compose, take a photos.

I do know how the rangefinder works since I have the hasselblad xpan II...and used often and a while...

but, I am wondering if there is any way you shoot different, or I might remember wrong that I saw the post somewhere that you don't really look through the window, like pre-focused, or something like that??? when shooting on the street, or unexcpeted moment, etc....

does that mean that you measure the distance, set the right distance...but, it still need to look through the window though to see the right exposure, doesn't it???

can someone share some idea on how they shoot...or the leica experience???

thanks 😉

 

[RdEoSg]

Welll I have the same lens and what I do is I zone focus.. Something like put it at f11 and everything from 6 feet to infinity is in focus... Then, I sorta take random exposure readings every so often to check my light. If I see an interesting building coming up or something with potential I will try to meter for that and then I just keep the camera handy and quickly compose and shoot with out focusing. I don't even look through the viewfinder every time. And as for the exposure. If you are shooting something like a 400 black and white, even if you do miss the exposure by a stop one way or another it isn't the end of the world. And with practice you get better and better at it!