Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yesterday I finally coud go out and shoot with the new Wide Zoom Vario Elmar R. I am quite impressed with the results. If sharpness is up the level one could expect this is not his main virtue but a general balance of features and results that gives you a regular output in any circumstance. I own and use 17-35 zooms from Canon and Nikon and the advantage is not the sharpness but the regularity of the output, the lack of flare and ghosting and the sharpnes all over the zoom range excepting a, small, softness at 21 full open. Bokeh is, as I thought, nice; an outstanding lens probably the best in his range (I have not bought the 17-35 Carl Zeis as I like not the Contax N system, but I think it will not surpass this tiny and nice vario Elmar). Have a look at a small sample of the hundreds of pictures I shooted yesterday: http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder.tcl?folder_id=250582 Kind regards Felix - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html