[Leica] 24mm Wide R

["Greg Bicket" <gbicket@home.com>]

Don and Wilber both make note of the R24, which is a lens often put down in
LUG circles.

It was conceived during the relationship with Minolta and is somehow flawed
by that genesis.  While it will never be one of Leica's classic R lenses
like the R19, the R50 Summicron, or the R100 APO Macro, it certainly is a
fine lens, and has been on the body during the making of many respectable
images, some Tuscan just-post-sunset landscapes come immediately to mind.

My personal bias in choosing which lens to use in a given situation tends
towards the "look" of the lens, and I very much like the "look" angle of
24mm wide angle lenses.  As far as I'm concerned, I don't lean heavily on
bench results, and I don't care who a lens' daddy is, I decide whether or
not I enjoy a lens based on what it does with the way the scene or subject
looked to me when I tripped the shutter.  My camera and the lenses I use
come the closest of doing that of any I have used in 35mm format.

That's what I like most about my Leica, and in a bag carrying lots of
goodies, the R24 spends a good bit of time on the body.

Enjoy the light,

Greg Bicket