Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:46 AM 10/2/99 -0500, Richard W. Hemingway wrote: >. I was especially interested in the 35/1.4-R as compared to the >35/1.4 asph-M that I used to have. I tend to take a lot of low light >pictures and bought all three 1.4 lenses. I mostly take slides and project >them onto a 60" x 60" matt screen with a Leica Pradovit P2002 projector >with a 90/2.8 Supercolorpan lens. I looked at both series of slides, from >last year and this year and, for my purposes, can't tell any difference >between the two 35/1.4 lenses for the most part This is something that people seem to be very skeptical about. This is a sleeper R lens that doesn't get as much respect as it should. Since the original Aspherical M lens came out, I have heard it's rated the third best 35mm around, behind the Aspherical and the Canon 35mm f/2. Dick's tests seem to bear out that it truly is a great lens. It does have some vignetting wide open with extremely even backgrounds, but other than that, and it's size and weight, I would love to own that lens again. Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances...a tiny relationship - - either a harmony or a disharmony - that creates a picture. -Ernst Haas, "More Joy of Photography"