{"id":6421,"date":"2012-06-08T10:50:13","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T15:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=6421"},"modified":"2012-06-08T11:23:30","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T16:23:30","slug":"friday-snapping-dragons-with-the-1970-65mm-elmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=6421","title":{"rendered":"Friday: snapping dragons with the 1970 65mm Elmar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes the subject and\/or assignment dictates the equipment which one must choose. At other times a photographer may choose the equipment simply for the pleasure of using a particular tool. The 65mm Elmar (as well as the 135mm Elmar) on the Visoflex III, with the stove pipe viewer, provide this photographer with a meditative\/contemplative experience. This meditative intuitive\u2014connection of eye\/hands : tool : subject has to do with the size and weight \u2014 how it feels in the hand, the manual\/mechanical aspects, the reversed image on the ground glass, as well as the rendering these lenses provide \u2014 all come together to feed the soul.<\/p>\n

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and the cotton wood has left it’s fluff on everything<\/p>\n

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Leica M8, 65 mm Elmar on Visoflex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes the subject and\/or assignment dictates the equipment which one must choose. At other times a photographer may choose the equipment simply for the pleasure of using a particular tool. The 65mm Elmar (as well as the 135mm Elmar) on the Visoflex III, with the stove pipe viewer, provide this photographer with a meditative\/contemplative experience. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,51,55,33,17,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts","category-documentary","category-flora","category-natural-world","category-photography","category-up-close","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6421"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6433,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6421\/revisions\/6433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}