Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]No, I don't think the Cron's are supposed to be better than the Elmarits within a given design generation. It takes tremendous effort to make a faster lens better than a slower lens. Don't quote me but I seem to recall that moving one aperture down squares the difficulty of aberration elimination. What I think confuses the issue is comparing a fifties production 50 Elmar to a nineties production Summicron. The latest 50 Elmar is certainly a very good performer even in the "O" Within the current generation of offerings from Solms: except for the most demanding of users, you know, the ones who don't use film faster than 100 and always carry a tirpod, you should choose a given focal length based on size desired and cash on hand. The performance level available is beyond what most of us can achieve hand held with 400 film. Advice repeatedly given by some better than myself is don't worry, load some film and shoot, shoot, shoot. Don dorysrus@mindspring.com