[Leica] New Zeiss M mount lens

[hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)]

Henning, understood regarding the VC lens as well.  I had the 25 for a brief 
time and it seemed to work well. Lovely compact thing,
too. I confess I traded it away. Price wise I would think that the Zeiss 
designs (the Cosina made ones) ought to continue between
the CV's and the Leicas. So expanded choices can only be a good thing. Also 
the new Zeiss releases seem aimed to revive the
character of their classic designs? For my preferences, the main role of a 
21 would be to later approximate the 28 on a camera with
a 1.33 crop. But then those are awfully big shoes to fill. I love my 28 
asph.  The 21's though are of course quite bulky, at least
the faster ones (don't even mention the prices). Dare I say it, I'd love for 
the M9's sensor to end up full size, to preserve the
positions of the current lenses. I'll probably be a basket case in a nursing 
home by then. I don't mean the M8 sensor won't produce
all of the quality we love, just that dang crop factor messes things up for 
me. Of course the loss at the wide end also produces
great short teles from the standards. Sigh. 

Cheers
Hoppy

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org 
[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Henning Wulff
Sent: Friday, 20 October 2006 09:14
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: RE: [Leica] New Zeiss M mount lens

>Thanks Don. I think that this compact series is a very welcome 
>addition to the M mount options. This end of the wide angles too, may
>become more important with the debut of the M8.
>Cheers
>Hoppy

I'd like to see how this lens does in comparison with the 21/4 VC 
(which is faster, smaller, lighter and quite good). The 21 VC is one 
of their better ones, and in light of my comparisons of 21's the new 
Biogon would have to be amazing to justify a likely higher price in 
view of its larger size.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org 
>[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On 
>Behalf Of
>Don Dory
>Sent: Friday, 20 October 2006 07:48
>To: Leica Users Group
>Subject: Re: [Leica] New Zeiss M mount lens
>
>Hoppy,
>Yes, it is quite compact as 21's go and close up was very sharp till about
>2/3 out.  I can not say about the outer zones as I only took about four
>frames with a pre-production model.
>
>Don
>don.dory@gmail.com
>
>
>On 10/19/06, G Hopkinson <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>>
>>  I'm not sure if I've missed a previous mention of this one.
>>
>>  Today I noticed that Zeiss have announced a new compact wide angle in
>>  their M mount range. The "C Biogon T* 4,5/21 ZM"
>>
>>  Looks very compact and interesting. A nice partner to the compact Sonnar
>>  50, perhaps.
>>  Cheers
>>  Hoppy
>
>
>
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