"Maggie" is first going to a studio to tape a podcast, and later in the day she will be flying out to Pittsburg for a meeting.
Sometime later this month she will be on broadcast TV, in what I think will be a live broadcast on a major NY network. Kinda big.
I've been admiring the files from the APO 35 Cron which I'm finding to be a very remarkable lens with a crazy good rendering. It seems like this lens loves F2.0. There is this heightened sharpness that is unlike any lens I have ever used, and this is combined with an OOF smoothness, even though this lens has 5 ASPH elements.
Do I have to mention that this lens is mucho highly corrected?
It seems that the $600.00 price increase that was expected in January 2020, was priced in early sometime in September 2019, just right after I bought my lens. Lucky me, I saved this $600.00 by beating any price increase.
"Moo," said the pig.
I have a shot I took at F2.0 on Central Park West where this British woman was killed. There is a "Ghost Bike" memorial draped in a British flag along with two pictures of the victim and some stuffed animals.
What is remarkable is the acute sharpness and detail revealed that suggests that this image could easily transcend formats and might even pass for large format using a tripod.
But then by chance there is a woman walking on the sidewalk, and the blurring and OOF presents an image of a very strong resemblance of the woman who was killed as part of the background. Pretty much the resemblance is so strong that it suggests that the woman walking on the sidewalk is a ghost herself.
This image was shot using my SL, and I can only imagine how the APO 35 Cron could get exploited on a higher resolution SL2 with image stabilization.
Know that my 50 Lux-SL not only has F1.4, but it has a retro Mandlar like signature.
Know that when I participated in the SL2 Launch event at the Leica Store SoHo that I only tested the 50 Lux-SL and my 58/1.2 Noct-Nikkor on the SL2. At the time these were my primary interest.
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