Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/07/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc, Earlier, a fellow from Holland claimed that the DR Summicron is not very good at 2.0 and 2.8. This may be so, but have you seen the difference? It is claimed that the new Summicron has much better contrast and resolution than the old one. I have recently taken a number of slides with both and find the DR lens to be most satisfactory. Admittedly, my tests were not scientific. Chris At 11:53 PM 7/28/96 -0400, you wrote: >Glenn > >I use a 50mm NF (or DR) lens without a complaint. It's a wonderful lens, >with good resolution, great sharpness, and superlative corner-to-corner >saturation. I also have a 1.4/50 Summilux, a 2/50 collapsible Summicron, >and a slew of Zeiss and Russian Zeiss-clone lenses, but the 2/50 NF is the >generally most satisfactory of the lot. > >I just shot a bunch of Kodachrome 25 slides of Spotsylvania Court House with >one, earlier today. It IS great to live in the middle of Real History! > >Marc > >msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 >Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! > > >