Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I do not have much experience with the wide angle Leica R lenses, but I do have an older 19mm Elmarit R, which is an excellent performer, and certainly much superior to the 17mm Tokina lens I once had when I was shooting Pentax SLR in my pre-Leica days. But I also have two newer Leica R lenses which are fantastic: the 4/35-70mm which is the simply the best zoom I have ever owned, and the 100mm Apo Macro Elmarit, which I consider to be my best Leica lens, R or M, and by itself enough reason to buy a Leica SLR. My older lenses in the longish range, a 60mm Macro Elmarit and a 2.8/180mm, are also both excellent, as was a 6.8/400mm I once owned. My main use of SLRs is with long lenses and macro, and here my R lenses are *much* better than the Pentax equipment I had before. Nathan Red Dawn wrote: > all of which leads to something i've been wanting to find out for myself - > are the R lenses just as good as the best (L glass / AFS glass) from their > Japanese Canon / Nikon counterparts, or up to the high standards of M glass? > > anybody has an idea of how the 35mm R Summilux stacks up against a Canon > 35mm f1.4L? or the 24mm Elmarit R against the el cheapo Canon 24mm f2.8, or > even the Canon 24mm f1.4L? > - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: nathanw@bluewin.ch mobile: +41 78 732 1430 Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2003.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html