Re: [Leica] New R ASPH lens

["Olivier T. Nguyen" <onguyen@optonline.net>]

I don't know and don't understand why Leica do not come out with a good zoom
lens like other brand like N and C .  there are a few zoom lens but it is
very limited such as 35-70 f2.8 (as i correctly remember), 70-180mm f2.8.  I
wish that leica can have a lens like this 17-50mm f2 or f2.8 , 17-35mm f2 or
f2.8 , 20-120mm f2/f2.8, 20-70mm f2/f2.8.    this would be a dream come true
for me to buy those lens.  for N and C brand, they offer those lens and the
price also over $1k range.  N has 17-35mm f2.8 and the price is $1500.  if
leica have 17-35mm f2.8 for $2k or 3k, I would sacrify my wallet for it.
sorry i talk too much of junk here.

I totally agree with other two posts in here that with aperture 3.4, the
lens is very very slow even for landscape.
Olivier


- ----- Original Message -----
From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@home.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] New R ASPH lens


> 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
>
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