Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/11

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Subject: [Leica] What's the Best All-Around 50?
From: jgovindaraj at eth.net (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Thu May 11 09:13:56 2006
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Mark,
You must be joking!!

B&H prices:

50mm f1.4AIS  Nikkor is US$300 US Guarantee.(ithe AF version will be 
cheaper)
50mm Summicron-M is US$1495 US Guarantee.

Cheers
Jayanand




Mark Langer wrote:

> In that case, I'm surprised that the ubiquitous Jupiter 3 50mm f1.5 
> hasn't
> come up, which is a lot of lens for the money.  Or the Nikkor 50mm f1.4,
> although with that lens you are getting into the Summicron price range.
>
> On 5/11/06, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342@cox.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> I laid out the criteria in the original email posting. I guess I was
>> looking for "best" as the one lens that could be the best compromise of
>> features, like D76 and Tri-X, rather than the best at doing one thing.
>> -- 
>> Jeffery
>>
>> -
>
>
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