Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/20

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Voigtlander 35 1.7 Ultron
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 11:25:27 -0400

> I have already ordered a 'full house" of Bessa lenses, including
> the Ultron
> 35/1,7. It might not be a Leica lens, but it will fit nicely on any old
> screwmount and most likely run rings around the 3,5/35 or even an
> expensive
> 2.8/35. I am all for supporting Cosina in their effort to widen
> our choices
> and as I already have the 15 and the 25 and am very impressed with the
> quality of these two, reasonably priced, alternatives, I am
> willing to trust
> Cosinas output. So the barrels might be lighter than Leicas and
> after some
> heavy use they will show wear or loosen up, but the price for the
> 35/1,7, the
> 50/1,5 and the 75/2,5 is the same as for a 75/1,4 and the
> combined weight of
> the three lenses is less than the 75/1,4. It is not that I am
> selling off the
> Leica lenses, the Cosina/Ricoh/Konica/Zeiss/Nikon and Canon lenses that I
> have in LTM or M mount are supplementing the Leica lenses. They
> also have a
> different character than the Solms/Midland lenses and variety is
> supposedly
> the spice of life!
>  What Cosina has done that is truly smart, is making an auxiliary
> finder for
> the various lenses and I have ordered a 75 finder to go with the
> 75/2,5 and
> also for the times when I want to use the M3 or M2 with this lens. Leica
> should have made that style finder in 1981 when they introduced
> the 75/1,4.
> Tom A


Spoken like a photographer who's also a gearhead, rather than a gearhead who
forgets what the gear is for!

Dr. Blacktape
"There is no true objectivity; there is only, at best, objective truth."
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