Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 7/4/00 1:49 am, Julio Marcos at jmarcos@earthlink.net wrote: > It's funny how people consider their Leica and Contax glass a step above > Nikon or Canon, have religious wars about it, but then go and put Cosina > lenses in their Leicas. I have a 75/2.5. As far as I am concerned there is no Leica competition for this lens. The 75/1.4 isn't really a viable lens for streetshooting, IMHO, as it's too big (and expensive). Technically, the results are on a par with my Leica glass. The Nokton will probably be my next purchase. Erwin's tests place this marginally AHEAD of the Summilux-M 50mm. Hmmm. Consumers (present company excepted) tend to make rational decisions. I have a Leica 28 because I tried a Rokkor and found it lacking. I will buy a Summilux-M 35 ASPH because it's a wonderful, practical lens for me and I didn't particularly like the Voigtlander 1.7. On Saturday I went into my local Leica dealer to play with some lenses. Almost every person who walked in with a Leica round their neck had a voigtlander lens on it. I would guess that the Voigtlander lenses have INCREASED sales of used M bodies markedly, as they are competitive with the Bessa-R. OTOH The shots I took with the Voigtlander 15 were not as great, wide open, as I would have liked. Definitely not comparable to the standard of current generation Leica lenses. The moral is that MTF graphs aren't the whole story by a long, long way. There is far more to the 'look' of a lens than sharpness. Judging a lens by an MTF graph is like judging a guitar by the number of frets, or a car by the size of its engine. - -- Johnny Deadman photos: http://www.pinkheadedbug.com music: http://www.jukebox.demon.co.uk