Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:22 AM 6/8/06 +0200, Luis Ripoll wrote: >Really excellent pictures, an excellent work. You are right and I love too >the qualities of the old Leica lenses for B&W, it seems to me that this one >has his own personality, I use for B&W more and more both Summilux, the 50 >and the 35 PRE ASPH. Luis It is a bit of a myth that a lens will perform better in "black and white" or in "color" unless it was designed for such purposes. And the NF 2/5cm Summicron is certainly capable of grand work on both both types of film. There is no difference to the lens; the difference might well be how the light is filtered by, say, CC filters, but, beyond that, the lens does not normally care. There are of course special lenses made for UV and IR work, but these are special cases. A normal lens designed after, say, 1930, should work properly on either B&W or color emulsions. Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!