Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/25

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Subject: [Leica] Your thoughts on a Voigtl ä nder Lens
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov)
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:00:28 -0700
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Let's see something with an Isco Westron 35 f2.8, or a 20mm f4  
Flektogon?
Showing a telephoto sample against a wide angle sample is not a  
credible comparison.
S.d.

On Mar 25, 2009, at 3:32 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:

> Hey S.D.,
>
> Let's don't knock the old hardware that can no longer speak for  
> itself.  I never used Soviet film, but I can speak for the Exacta/ 
> Exa family.  My Exacta died, but its little brother, the Exa, still  
> marches on.  The link below shows what the Exa can do, even when  
> equipped with another stepchild, the Steinheil 2.8/85mm Culminar  
> lens.  I don't see an image problem.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Nose+Gear+Lights.jpg.html
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Slobodan Dimitrov"  
> <s.dimitrov at charter.net>
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> Subject: Re: [Leica] Your thoughts on a Voigtl ? nder Lens
>
>
>> I keep seeing these golf ball grain images taken with the 21mm. It  
>> is really a disservice to the optics not to use a slow, fine grain  
>> film.
>> Most of the examples I've just seen might as well been taken with  
>> an Exakta using Soviet film. That's not Leica photography as  
>> passed down  by our predecessors.
>> S.d.
>>
>>
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