Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]FIGLIO4CAP@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 4/21/99 10:43:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > dstate1@hotmail.com writes: > > << How do you like the new Elmar 2.8? >> > I had one for a while and its performance was almost as good as the current > Summicron, but not quite with Tech Pan. However, performance was not the > issue in my selling the lens. For me, with the hood, there was not much a of > size difference. The weight difference was not significant either. > Ultimately,I felt that the Summicron outperformed the Elmar, was not much > larger nor heavier - so why tie up so much money on it? However, it sure is > pretty! > Bob Figlio Realizing that my below statements and questions are at the presumptuous level: Cause without the hood the thing goes into your pocket. How many fifties are too many? Don't you have a Noct. as well? Why did you buy it in the first place? Is it the cheapest new Leica M lens made? It is gorgeous! How often do you shoot Tech Pan. film with a sandbaged tripod and then make 20 by 24's? Mark Rabiner