Hi, friends:

I have seen some postings regarding the 50mm Cron as compared with other lenses, lately (as always).

This old Ford was taken with an old (1957) 50mm Cron.

Regards. Comments well come.

-Iván

-- Iván Barrientos M (ingenieria@simltda.tie.cl), May 27, 2002

Answers

Nice old Model A! I liked that you provided the generous depth of field using f/11. I also liked the effect of using B&W film and closely cropping the car. The reflection of the woman's head in the passenger door window looks like a spirit.

-- Doug from Tumwater (dbaker9128@aol.com), May 27, 2002.

Would've liked to see more of the car, also with a cleaner background, this particular one doesn't do anything for it.

-- James (snodoggydogg@hotmail.com), May 27, 2002.

very nice. I many have used a larger f-stop to blow the background out a little more. But nice shot.

-- Robbie (none@none.com), May 27, 2002.

I swear, I thought I saw the Barrow's Gang through the windshield!

-- Glenn Travis (leicaddict@hotmail.com), May 27, 2002.

I like your shot, it´s always amazing what b/w can do to a picture. Thank´s for showing.

Best regards

-- leicam (k.g.wolf@web.de), May 28, 2002.

Thanks for the comments, gentlemen !

Regarding the rest of the car and the background: please believe I tried my best to show as much of the car as possible without allowing an ugly and distracting background (crowded apartment buildings plus lots of people around that had nothing to do with the main subject) to mess with the impact of the image.

In fact when I first saw the photo I was glad I had succeded to isolate the most atractive part of the image to the way I did by cropping directly on camera.

Thanks again.

-Iván

-- Iván Barrientos M (ingenieria@simltda.tie.cl), May 30, 2002.