Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/07/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I shall accept the [gulp] challenge. Without my M8, it will have to be a 25/1.4 Summilux on an Olympus E30. Okay, what the hell week is this?! Sent from my iPad Jeffery L. Smith New Orleans, Louisiana USA On Jul 9, 2012, at 22:48, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote: > Remarkably little difference between them at f5.6, especially given the > difference in price/size/weight! > > Still time to start a PAW, I only started this year, and it is useful to > show some images that do not stand up on their own and that other peoples > taste can be different to your own ;-) I am still a sparse shooter, too > many years with sheet and 120 film I think, so do not have to choose from > 720 in a week ;-) > > john > ________________________________________ > > > And the 15 Zeiss was the tipping $ point that was not made by Cosina, > putting it out of my reach. I do have the 15 VC but virtually never use it. > > I regret not doing a PAW, and admire those doing a PAW or PESO. The > pressure of doing a PAW made me think photographic thoughts every day. > And, pathologically, digital seem to steal some of the magic. Instead of > scanning 36 frames, I was editing 720 frames. > > Sent from my iPad > > Jeffery L. Smith > New Orleans, Louisiana > USA > > On Jul 9, 2012, at 22:24, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote: > >> I think the 15mm is the only asph in the ZM range. I suspect that the >> Zeiss SLR range will start to get asph lenses as CA is a big issue on the >> D800(E) with them. >> >> john >> ________________________________________ >> >> >> I'm willing to throw Zeiss into that as well. I'm not sure that Zeiss >> uses as much asph as Leica, or if they just don't mention it in the lens >> name. >> >> It is probably a flaw in my standards that I don't care so much about >> corner sharpness. If the corner is that important, I should have put it >> in the middle instead of the corner. >> >> Other than my Russian lenses, virtually everything I own is good enough >> for me (= better than me). I really don't like anything about zoom lenses >> and rarely use them on my dSLR cameras. >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> Jeffery L. Smith >> New Orleans, Louisiana >> USA >> >> On Jul 9, 2012, at 21:49, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote: >> >>> Ah, I was talking Leica asph ;-) >>> >>> john >>> ________________________________________ >>> >>> >>> The Voigtlander 50/1.5 Nokton was perhaps the first really sharp, >>> afforable, asph lens that people hated for its bokeh. The trend in >>> thinking seemed to be that reducing aberrations with asph elements >>> benefitted everything except bokeh. >>> >>> I think every lens needs to be assessed on its own merit. I don't have >>> any bad Leica lenses, though the old 50/3.5 Elmar performs like a >>> Russian copy. Wait, maybe it is.... >>> >>> The 50/2.5 Hexanon is better. >>> >>> Sent from my iPad >>> >>> Jeffery L. Smith >>> New Orleans, Louisiana >>> USA >>> >>> On Jul 9, 2012, at 20:56, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote: >>> >>>> I think that is a widely held misconception.... >>>> >>>> john >>>> ________________________________________ >>>> >>>> >>>> By the way, George, you had some incredibly creamy-bokeh shots posted >>>> the other day, and one of them was with an aspherical Leica lens(!). It >>>> blew away my bias that aspherical = bad bokeh. >>>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Mail was checked for spam by the Freeware Edition of CleanMail. > The Freeware Edition is free for personal and non-commercial use. > You can remove this notice by purchasing a full license! > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information