Instead I like the focal fixed: I recognize that the zoom is convenient, comfortable, but not always what is comfortable then it is also useful, and above all necessary.
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That time on Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, had, in addition to the trust Leica M6 with 35 and 90mm, also a R6.2, full of Super Elmar 15 / 3,5 (820g) and Apo TELYT 180 / 3.4 (750g).
I had the idea, preparing the trip, a super wide angle and a moderate telephoto I would have been useful: I have noticed in some books I have consulted, in particular views of the island that did not seem easy to photograph with normal lenses. The 24mm seemed short: I finally decided to overdo it and bring him to three pounds of glass and metal, or the two targets mentioned above.
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Initially I had many opportunities to use two lenses: the 35mm on the M6 was more than enough for most situations, but I always hoped in the next day.
In fact, once you are on top of 400 meters of the edge of the extinct crater of Rano Kau, full of small lakes on the bottom, I immediately realized that the occasion of the use of 15mm had finally arrived. Almost immediately, at my wife and me, two Germans arrived panting: thanks to the fact that I speak the language of Goethe (and, alas, Adolf ...) we exchanged some photographic information, and while the Teuton extolling its zoom compact Tokina handyman, I gave him to pull out my trinkets marked Leica. Great was his surprise when he saw dell'Unno check the huge front lens of the Super Elmarit: almost roared with laughter to the unawareness Italic dragged in the middle of the Pacific that monstrosity optics.
However, just let him, patronized throughout Latin America, to put an eye in the viewfinder of the Leica, echoed in the silence of the island a powerful Wunderbar!.
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The 28mm, maximum wide angle focal length of its zoom could not at all to cover the enormous size of the caldera of the volcano, but rather mortified him, with an angle of view totally inadequate. Instead, the 15mm, with 110 ° field of view, fully restored the feeling of emptiness, grandeur and mystery that the place magically transmitted.
The look he gave me back the German, once detached from the stunning views ipergrandangolare fatigue, said it all: wonderful, understanding and respect for the choice. The look he gave to my camera bag was now full of curiosity and interest. So I pulled out also the 180mm and began to resume the pattern of beautiful blue lakes among the vegetation, which, thanks to the canvases, they became abstract designs.
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Now I followed the Teuton with religious interest, but with its 85mm could do little, if not satisfied to see the shots in the viewfinder of my Leica.We parted amicably, but then I thought about the convenience of having only take one to zoom around, at least on a journey so challenging.
In the following days I had several more opportunities to use the 15mm. Lonely on the crater of Puna Pau, where the lake which occupied the crater was full of cattail plants, oppuredalla top of the coast that plunges steeply to the island ceremony (where in the representation of the myth of Man Bird) which is opposite the village of Orongo, to restore that sense of infinite space and solitude, which gives this island lost in the immensity of the Pacific Ocean.
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Some giant Moai statues of the great features of Rapa Nui, taken with the 15mm appeared in all their mysterious glory, thanks to the play of clouds that the enormous field of view placed in evidence.
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Now, many years later, the effort to carry the bag full of windows machines and I no longer have any memories, but each time it slides in Rapa Nui in public, I distinctly feel the wonder of the spectators oooh, when the giant Ranu Kau caldera appears on the screen.
A paradigm of the human race and the Super Elmarit helped me to reconstruct and retransmit symbolized by the mystery and the Moai Rano Kau caldera.
Written by Pierpaolo Ghisetti