Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]CL 40f2.0, both Rokkor and Summicron are standard M mount. (You can put your other M lenses on a CL too, for that matter, but it's not nearly so nice a camera as an M6.) I got my 40f2.0 used a Glazer's, a local shop. Surely there are others around. bmw - -----Original Message----- From: Five Senses Productions <fls@5senses.com> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>; leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Tuesday, June 09, 1998 9:32 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Words of Wisdom! => Actual Practice Notes >You can fit a CL 40/2 on an M6? >And it's smaller than a 50/2.8 retracted? >Wow.....where do I get one? > >Francesco > > >At 02:02 AM 6/9/98 , Bryan Willman wrote: >>So, I'm just back from a race weekend >>(driving) in CA. I carried about with >>me a little black bag, smaller than >>some women's purses. Camera, >>3 lenses, including 2 f1.4s. >> >>About 1/3 of shots were at f1.4. >> >>All shots were only possible because >>after 40 lbs of helmet, suit, gloves, etc, >>I just don't have energy left for "big" >>camera gear. Little bag with little >>Leica gear is almost always bearable. >> >>And the lenses can see in the dark. >> >>So, if I didn't misload the film or otherwise >>screw up, there will be shots of my >>S.O. across the dinner table, >>shots of the deer on the Pebble Beach >>golf course, etc. >> >>On a related note, I've been carrying >>an M6 with a 40mm f2. Summicron >>originally intended as a lens for a CL. >>I pretend it's a 50 (as does the viewfinder.) >>It's main claim to fame is that it's about >>as small as you could get and still be >>able to set f-stop and focus. It is smaller >>in use than a 50f2.8 collapsible is >>when retracted. Makes a nice pocket >>camera. Will see film soon. Don't expect >>it to match my 35f1.4asph, but a camera >>in the hand is worth 7 in the closet. >>(40f2 gets carried by itself, never with >> other lenses.) >> >>(Oh, and I too once owned an AF Sigma that >> behaved badly.) >> >>bmw >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Claes Bjerner <claes.bjerner@pi.se> >>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >>Date: Monday, June 08, 1998 2:13 PM >>Subject: [Leica] Words of Wisdom! >> >> >>Yesterday Bob Roseman wrote this on the EOS list: >> >>>All right Ladies and Gentlemen, it's put up or shut up time. I have been on >>>this list long enough to know that there are those of you out there who >>>feel that lens sharpness is the be all and end all of lens performance >>>(with occasional comments concerning damping, lens droop, and my favorite >>>topic, self destruction of Sigma lenes). >>> >>0 0 0 >> >>>Let's all cut out the posturing about being pros, experts, wealthy, poor >>>what ever it is we use to justify the lenses we buy and level about >>>subjects we shoot, what lenses we have, and whether what we own fills the >>>bill or leaves us wanting. >>> >>>That way, we will all benefit far more from one another's experience. >>>Remember the truth! >>> >> > >