Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/03

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Subject: [Leica] Choice of lenses
From: nickbroberts at yahoo.co.uk (Nick Roberts)
Date: Tue Oct 3 13:00:44 2006
 
I've never been that happy with either a 35 (not wide enough) or 50 (too 
long) - a 40 is very nice for me, and is after all closer to the diagonal of 
a 35mm neg than either of the others - a true standard. My rangefinder 
lenses are 15, 25, 35, 40, 50 and 90 - 25, 40, 90 makes an excellent 3 lens 
set. But if you don't like 40, you don't like it! I do, and I prefer the 
75mm Rolleiflex lens to the 80mm for the same reasons.

Nick

----- Original Message ----
From: Richard Endress <rfendress@fastermac.net>
To: cvug-request@cameraquest.org
Cc: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, 3 October, 2006 7:25:37 PM
Subject: [Leica] Choice of lenses


Hello to both CVUG and LUG,

I have been seeing the occasional discussion of 40mm lenses for  
rangefinder cameras.  I have used the Leitz that was standard on my  
CL and the Voigtlander on a Voigtlander body.  Both were wonderful  
lenses, sharp, minimal flare, (despite their difference in age) but I  
didn't really like the field of view.  It was neither medium wide,  
like both eyes open, nor the more selective 50mm one eye open view.   
For wide I like the 35mm for recording the scene on the street.   
Wider I like the 28 and wider yet the 21.  I haven't used my  
Voigtlander 15mm enough to really get the hang of it yet.  If I want  
a tighter view the 50 will do it.  As an aside I have been using a  
50mm on my R-D1 that gives, more or less, the tighter view of a 75mm  
on a 35 film camera.  I can see why people like that field of view.   
It has been useful to me on the street.

So that is just my two cent opinion.   What are your thoughts?

Happiest with rangefinders, Richard

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