Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eddie Shih wrote: >>And the other is really making me breathless. The wide-angle zoom lens we have been waiting for : 21-35mm/f3.5-4 ASPH.<<<<< Eddie old chap, please save your breath as any lens produced in these modern times and doesn't start with 2.8 through out the zoom range is best referred to as a "mickey mouse lens!" And certainly being breathless is only in relation to the ridiculousness of wasting time producing it in the first place! Besides I bet it'll still cost an arm, a leg and your wife to purchase when it's really only of use at bright sun high noon time. As far as a solid working lens in the caliber of many Leica fast lenses gone before it manufactured for excellent use in the wonder world of existing available light... at whatever level that maybe, this "slow lens will ultimately be of use at the beach and holiday time while shooting out doors. On bright days! You may also be breathless for a very long time before it arrives and even then only have a few produced before they stop production much as they did with what could've been a great lens, 28mm -- 70mm 2.8! For heaven sake one would consider they could at least hold an aperture of 3.5 between 21 and 35, surely that's not such a big deal in these days of wonder manufacturing . I do believe Canon have a 20--70 ? 2.8 that is producing excellent quality film exposures. Certainly one would think the leading manufacturer of the best glass in the world, Leica, could simply keep at least a 3.5 aperture between 35 and 70. Aspheric or not!. B.D. WROTE: >>- Maybe it's the lens you've been waiting for, but unless one shoots nothing but rocks and trees, or other subjects in daylight, a 3.5 to f 4 lens seems awfully slow<< Hi B.D. I'm with you all the way only I'd say, "Rocks, ferns, peeling paint and non breathing things!" ;-) And I'll bet the price will be sky high and limited to the few fortunates with income high enough to purchase. It's too bad someone in the Black Forest of elves can't get it through their collective heads that a simple inexpensive lens will sell and make them profit, than the one that is limited to "some of those" earning their keep as professionals or the good fortunes of the economically unchallenged! And as far as professionals purchasing, what is the point of buying a f 3.5 zoom to f4, even with a not bad zoom range of 21-35, when it can't even hold 3.5? Hell a ton of my work is shot between f 1.0 and 3.5 so this lens at 3.5 dropping to 4 is useless as a low light zoom.Out doors or indoors! OK that's it! ;-) ted Ted Grant Photography Limited www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html