Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks to all for the comments. The Zeiss is a front-runner for me; I'll see if it's doable around tax-refund time. While I would love to have the Leica counterpart, the 50 lux wounded the bank account :) Wendy On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Daniel Tan <taniel.dan at gmail.com> wrote: > I've got a 2/35 Biogon (and a 35 UC Hexanon). > The Biogon's centre might not be quite as sharp as the cron asph, but has > better edge sharpness. Bokeh is fine. > > I do have two gripes with the Biogon though > 1) It's big for a 2/35 lens. It's only a tiny bit shorter than my 50 > Millenium Lux and 50 MHexanon, though it's not as heavy nor has as large a > diameter as the two. > 2) Build quality isn't that great. Mine has developed some slack in the > focusing helicoid. I have a feeling this can be corrected though. My 2/50 > Planar M didn't have this issue, but I feel that the build quality in some > ways isn't even as good as some of the voigtl?nders... > > On the plus side, it has 1/3 stop aperture d?tentes. Also I prefer the > character of the pictures that come out of it. > > :Dan > > > > On 27 February 2010 15:20, Jefffery Smith <jsmith342 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > It is a very good lens but I don't have any sample pictures I can put my > > hand on at the moment. I don't think you would be disappointed. My > feelings > > are that Zeiss has never really produced a bad lens, and the recent > M-mount > > lenses are all very high quality. There are some focusing isuues with the > > 50/1.5 Sonnar, but the others are very high quality. And there isn't much > > out there to compete with it now that Konica is not longer in business > and > > producing the 35/2 Hexanon. The 35/2.5 M Skopar (Voigtlander) is "nice" > and > > the 35/1.7 Ultron (Voigtlander) is better, but the Zeiss is better in > build > > quality than the 35/1.7. > > > > My gut feeling is that they rank in this order: > > 35/2 Summicron (tops) > > 35/2 Biogon and 35/2 Hexaonon - tied > > 35/1.7 Ultron > > 35/2.5 Skopar > > > > And if you want to play with fire, > > > > 35/1.2 Nokton (it's big, it's heavy, and it can be finicky, but it's > fast!) > > > > Jeffery > > > > > > On Feb 26, 2010, at 10:59 PM, Wendy Thurman wrote: > > > > > I'm not necessarily in the lens market; I feel I should stick with the > 50 > > > lux I have as I learn the Leica system. One of these days I'll > want/need > > a > > > wider lens. While of course a Leica 35 cron is, well, a Leica, I would > > > appreciate opinions or experiences any of you may have with this lens. > > It's > > > affordably priced and appears to be generally well-regarded. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Wendy > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Leica Users Group. > > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >