Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/31

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Subject: [Leica] If You Absolutely Loved Your 1970 Vintage 105 Nikkor, Raise Your Hand!
From: bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Tue Aug 31 14:13:28 2004
 
I have sitting behind me here on a book shelve a mounted 7x10 (okay, I
cropped ;-) ) of my wife, shot in about 1973 or '74 with a DR - and I
don't know what could be improved in terms of the image quality. (Either
does my wife, who 30 years later somehow expects every shot of her to
look like the person in that shot. ;-) )

B. D.

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From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Feli di Giorgio
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 5:11 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] If You Absolutely Loved Your 1970 Vintage 105
Nikkor,Raise Your Hand!


On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 13:54, Buzz Hausner wrote:
> I bought a Nikkor 105/2.5 in, I think, 1970 and used it a lot for 
> twenty years.  There's no sense comparing the qualities of any 
> thirty-five year old lens to a current production Leica lens.  
> However, I recall that I felt the same emotional attachment to that 
> lens as people seem to feel to the 35 Summilux Aspheric and the 90 AA,

> which is saying quite a lot.
> 
>       Buzz Hausner

Then again absolute sharpness isn't everything. I have both the current 
2/50 Summicron and a Summicron DR and prefer the look of the DR.

FEli


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