Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]if anyone has access to this article and would be willing to mail a copy to me, i'd be happy to pay for your time/efforts. i remember reading this article when it could still be accessed on the LHSA page, and i'd like to read it again..... thanks, kim At 12:33 AM 3/19/2000 -0800, you wrote: >LUG'gers, > I can't speak to the original poster's intent, but I understood the >comparison. In fact, it's not a new idea. In an old LHSA Viewfinder >article by Dick Gilcreast, he compares and contrasts the handheld >functionality of a 35mm Summilux to the Noctilux. Mr. Gilcreast suggests, >rightly so, that a camera with a 35mm lens can be shot at lower speed than >the same camera with a 50mm lens. The article suggests that in this >comparison, the available light gathering ability of these lenses are equal >if they are both opened up and shot at their functional handheld speeds (35 >Summilux = 1/15 and Noctilux 1/30). > I would post the URL, but it is since dead after LHSA secured a unique >domain name. > >John Beal II >Redmond, OR > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: A.H.SCHMIDT <horsts@primus.com.au> >To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 2:43 PM >Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: 35/1.4 ASPH vs Noct > > > > > > > > I must be missing something here. > > > > How can anyone try and compare a 35mm Summilux Asph to a 50mm Noctilux. > > > > I could see The question to be put for a comparison between a 35mm >Summilux vs > > a 35 mm Summicron, or a any 35mm versus any 50 mm or a similar >combination. > > > > But not a specific lens of one focal length to a specific lens of another >focal > > length. > > > > Regards, Horst Schmidt > > > > > >