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Subject: [Leica] Your Recommendations
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:03:46 -0400
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Gary,
That gets you down to 28mm and the price may be right.  If you go wider
track down the appropriate finder.  Many of the C/V lenses come with a
finder.  The whole finder of an M2 is close enough for 28mm work if you
don't wear glasses or don't mind mashing them up against the viewfinder.

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Gary Dalton <grdalton at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> Thanks to Jim, Ric, Don, et al for their input on a lens for the M2 wider
> than a 35 Summaron...
>
> With respect to a camera viewfinder for a wider lens, I read a comment
> suggesting the use of an old Yashica Electro G Tele-Wide view finder on an
> M2 for a wide angle CV lens. I don't know which lens, specifically, but 
> does
> that sound doable to anyone?
>
>
>
>
> > Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:52:42 -0400
> > From: don.dory at gmail.com
> > To: lug at leica-users.org
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Your Recommendations
> >
> > Gary,
> > On a small budget the Cosina/Voightlander  lenses available at
> CameraQuest
> > as previously mentioned.  The 25mm if you just can't back up enough
> > currently or have some subject in mind that needs a wider view.  The 21mm
> > are very good for moderately mind expanding images; as Slobodan mentioned
> > there is a real learning curve to getting the near far relationship down.
> > As you go ultrawide it is all to easy to have everything in the frame a
> > little tiny speck out there somewhere.
> >
> > If you are feeling really adventurous, then pick up the 15mm.  With that
> > lens you need to be real friendly with your subjects.  If you can't reach
> > out and touch your subject you are too far away.  But it is a way to make
> > very different images.
> >
> > On a larger budget substitute the Zeiss offerings but I would go to the
> 18mm
> > instead of the 21.  With the Zeiss you will be spending around 1k per
> lens
> > give or take.
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Gary Dalton <grdalton at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I have an M2. My widest lens is currently a 35 Summaron.
> > >
> > > If I wanted to go wider, what are my best options?
> > >
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Don
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