Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 2/8/07 8:30 PM, "Christopher Williams" <leicachris@worldnet.att.net> typed: > We all know the best Leitz lenses were made in Canada........... > > Ted told me this himself. > > Chris > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Buzz Hausner" > Subject: [Leica] 35mm f2 lens...Oh, Canada! > > >> Permit me a moment of lunatic heresy, but in my opinion...and I have used >> virtually every expression of this lens...the best combination is a >> Canadian >> lens in the 346XXXX range with a metal 12585 shade. Wetzlar provenance >> means nothing in terms of lens performance. Unfortunately, unlike the >> lens, >> a nice shade is none-to-cheap. That said, please let us not rejoin the >> Midland versus Wetzlar brouhaha. >> >> Buzz Hausner > > Was just telling somebody how I felt there was a tradition of farily well thought of photographers who used pre ASPH 35 Summicrons and Summiluxi a few decades back for there Ms sans lens shades as it I imagine just makes for a much more compact unobtrusive package. And really what's a lens shade going to do for a wide angle lens anyway? Stop the light from way over from the left and right from getting in? And that's going to lower contrast to any real extent? I just think they protect the lens a little bit that's all. I think of that as amour. Peripheral amour. Its important to protect ones peripherals. At all times. Oops I've got something in the corner of my eye. Mark Rabiner New York, NY 40?47'59.79"N 73?57'32.37"W markrabiner.com