[Leica] Re:My wide angle vision...

[george kase <gkase@ccfc.com>]

I've just gone through a wide angle search myself and have 
settled very happily on a 24mm Elmarit ASPH...To the way I
see pictures when I am out walking about, my mind seems to
compose the picture in a 24mm perspective...I tried the 35mm
and found it too confining...not enough of the environment
and by the way, when I got my first shots back I was extremely
pleased with the lenses "rendering" as I call it. I then bought
a 28mm Elmarit and found it better but still not wide enough.The
rendering was astounding, though and in my opinion much superior
to the 35mm. I then tried a 21mm Super Angulon. At first I thought
the viewfinder would be a nuisance but it was not ( I fell back on
my early experiences with my trusty old IIIc). The Super Angulon is
a fabulous lens. It is compact and delivers a picture similar in 
tonality to the 35mm Summicron...but it was too wide. To my "photo
vision" the distortion became a factor at the edges of the frame and
I like to place things at the edges...So, I bought a new 24mm ASPH
and, again "to my eye", the perspective is right on the money. But
beyond that...the rendering of this lens is awesome. Literally. There
isn't anything that it can't do that I want it to do...shoot into the
sun...pull detail out of extreme shadow in full sunlight...my black
and white stuff "looks" exactly like I've always wanted it to, but
have never been able to get...and for reference over the past 20 years
in advertising I've shot with Nikon, Hassy, and Deardorff for 35/med/large
format stuff...and although I've always been able to deliver sharp chromes
to a client none of it has ever "sung" like the shots I'm getting with
these M series Leica lenses...
George Kase