Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tom Christiansen wrote: > Folks, > > Regarding the 50mm lenses for the R system: What are people's opinions > on the different types (f/1.4, 2, 2.8)? Tom, In the Leica world, the best-performing lens at a given focal length is usually the one most recently updated by Leica. This being the LUG, I'm sure others will correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that that the current 50mm Summicrons are equivalent in their M and R versions. That is to say, they have both been updated relatively recently. However, the M Summilux is a relatively dated design while the R version is more recent. Here is what Erwin has to say on the subject of the Summilux R: http://www.imx.nl/photosite/leica/rseries/testr/r14-50.html Make of it what you will :-). Rolfe - -- Rolfe Tessem | Lucky Duck Productions, Inc. rolfe@ldp.com | 96 Morton Street (212) 463-0029 | New York, Ny 10014 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html