Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]So I'm sitting in my cubical in the Manhattan PR office, trying to kill time until I take the 9 p.m. Staten Island Ferry inorder to meet a man named "Chubby" in the McDonalds at the Staten Island terminal. If all goes as planned - BIG IF - Chubby and I will be picked up by one of three 12 passenger vans which, having begun their trip in Queens, NY, will travel through the night toward Columbia, South Carolina, for the first reunion of members of the Bracy family, a clan of black Americans who have traced their roots back to about 1800 and a slave/witch doctor on a plantation outside Columbia. Should we survive the drive, the festivities begin at 6 p.m. Friday with a buffet dinner at a Holiday Inn where family members are staying, followed by the presentation of a birthday cake to the 96-year-old matriarch of the Bracy family - the youngest reunion attendee is one-year-old. Family members will assemble a family quilt, and will then boogee on down with a DJ until midnight or so. Saturday begins with a trip to the church founded by the great-great-great-great grandfather of the woman who put this reunion together, the church where countless Bracy's are buried, and the church where the 96-year-old went to school as a little girl. The visit to the church will be followed from 1-9 p.m. with a get together in a state park, where family members will barbeque two whole hogs, have a card tournament, run games for the kids, and, if luck is with them, play a softball game with another family having a reunion there that day. Sunday it's back into the vans for the drive back to New York for the New York area family members and me, your intrepid LUGer, lugging three Ms, two F100s, lenses galore, an Olympus E20 N digital camera, and 50 rolls of Tri-X and 10 of Delta 3200. What I haven't figured out yet, is how to focus and shoot in my sleep - and whether there really will be a guy named Chubby meeting me at the McDonalds at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal.:-) B. D. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of bdcolen Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 6:50 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: RE: [Leica] 35 mm RF lens test result Well, there are two possibilities here - either they were testing the LuxASPH, or the test isn't worth a damn....and I have to say that the test sounds pretty poor anyway, as no 35 1.4 at 1.4 is going to do as well as a 35 2 at f2...or were they only comparing the lenses from f 2 onward. If that's the case, it's still a foolish test, because if you buy a 35 1.4 you - hopefully - buy it because you need the speed. So whether it performs quite as well at slower speeds as slower lenses becomes somewhat irrelivant. B. D. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Rob Appleby Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 6:16 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] 35 mm RF lens test result I suspicion he mean the new one... R. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Straus" <Mail@SlideOne.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 11:52 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] 35 mm RF lens test result > on 8/15/02 3:47 PM, Christer Almqvist at chris@almqvist.net wrote: > > > Second was Konica Hexanon with Zeiss Planar a close third, partly > > due to a good price/quality relation where they only lost five and > > four points respectively. Summilux was fourth, with eleven points > > lost due to its high price. Disregarding the price/quality rating, > > Summicron would still be placed before Summilux which would then be > > second overall. > > Sounds surprising. For how often I hear the Lux get complained about > for it's old design etc it would still take 2nd for quality...? Odd... > -- > John Straus > Chicago, IL > http://SlideOne.com > http://SlideOne.com/EditorsRoom > ========================== > > -- > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html