Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/19

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Subject: Re: [Leica] 35mm, 90mm, and now 50 mm?
From: D Khong <dkhong@pacific.net.sg>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:01:32 +0000

>
>Now I think about buying a 50mm lens. But which one?
>
>Noctilux: Too expensive, too heavy, too special ...
>
>Summilux: Still quite expensive; heavy; "do I realy need a f-stop of 1.4?"
>(the 35mm-Summicron is fine for me!); heard, that it makes not as sharp
>pictures as the Summicron
>
>Summicron: Guess, that's my favorit. Not too expensive; not too heavy; makes
>sharp pictures; f-stop of 2.0 should be enough; price is OK.
>
>Elmarit: Would make my camera a great travel-companion! (Is it easy to
>collapse the Elmarit?) Is a 2.8-f-stop enough? Read, that it makes not as
>sharp pictures as the Summicron. Price is OK.
>
>Which one would be your choice, if you had a 35mm-Summicron and a
>90mm-Elmarit?
>
>Best regards,
>
>Bego

Too bad that you have written off the Noctilux because that would have been
my first choice. The 50 Summilux would be my closest choice after the Noct.

Dan K.
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