Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You sound like my accountant - "Buy and hold.." I am not going to sell my 50 summicron. I really do appreciate your passion. Eric ps. Do you really talk to your lenses? Do they ever talk back? In German or Canadian? :) - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark@rabinergroup.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 10:19 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Alternate to current 35mm ASPH? > faneuil wrote: > > > > Ok - so from all the responses I have received I am thinking of selling my > > 35 lux ASPH for the compactness of a 4th gen 35 Summicron. Stop f1.4 all > > that much, esp as I usually have my camera loaded with 400 NPH or TCN. > > The compactness of the late spherical model is just so atttactive.. > > > > Fickle Eric > > > > You dot need F 1.4 because you're shooting 400? > My guess is more photographs have been taken at f 1.4 with 400 film than > any other combination F. stop film there is. > I shoot f 1.4 with 1600 film as a matter of course and f 1 with the same > film as well. As most not most SLR people consider f1.4 to be medium. > Faster than that is fast. They cant figure out how we get anything at > all with a Summicron F2 lens with out irradiated jacked up 1600 film to > ASA 6400! > > Me I'm not a buyer and seller. If I had the sharpest 35mm lens in the > history of the known universe (which you do) and probably for some time > to come and a recently invented innovation which relatively few have I'd > not sell it to raise cash for an earlier model which pretty much > represents an earlier technology. Not the best glass but a cute > different thing. (Look you see though this little window!) Now lets not > obsess over terms lets just say the ASPH's have been a boom for Leica > making it in my opinion Definitely higher quality image makers than ANY > 35mm format competition. Before we thought they were probably sharper > (sorry Erwin). Now we KNOW. (I'm sure some don't. It's big world and a > big enough list) About one every three times this is said on the list > the whole list goes up in arms claiming there Mamiya glass or whatever > is just as good! > > So hold on to that jewel you can pick up a Summicron non Asph any day > for a chump change. Use it when you're walking miles at a time. Use the > Asph when you need the best as in the best images. > > And when you GET that little Summicron hold it up and stroke it's little > head and say to it: > > "Nice little Summicron. I'll NEVER trade you in for some other little > expensive thing in a few months or years. > You're mine forever!" > > The lens does better when it feels warm and secure. > > And a question arises what did you get the lens for - long distance > hiking or taking quality photographs? > My guess based on nothing is the latter but now if you want the former > don't forsake the later for cash. You might need to take a real good > shot in your own backyard or in your house. Wide open as we said the non > Asph is do do. > Compact. But you expect that from an f4 lens. > > I'm sure glad when i got my Noctilux i did not then sell my 50 > Summicron!. It's still very useful to me as a matter of fact, more > useful than the Noctilux which really is a special purpose tool. I often > find myself not in dark alleys or otherwise stalking the night air. I'm > home watching television is more like it or printing in my darkroom or > here and posting to the LUG. > I should also say thought that some (like Ted) cant seem to pry it off > the camera and use it all the time. He's all over the place and never > thinks twice about the weight of his lens. > > Sorry for the overstatements my medication just kicked in. > > > Mark Rabiner > Portland, Oregon USA > http://www.rabinergroup.com > -- > 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