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Subject: [Leica] 21mm f1.4 Summilux - the next
From: wayneserrano at earthlink.net (Wayne Serrano)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 14:59:36 -0400 (EDT)

The attached link is to images created with the 21mm f/1.4, I was shooting 
with it on an M9 and the combination was very comfortable.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2042543&id=1299410154&l=d4c64a728f

Wayne

-----Original Message-----
>From: Bryan Willman <bryanwi at bryanwi.com>
>Sent: Jul 1, 2010 10:01 AM
>To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>Subject: [Leica]  21mm f1.4 Summilux - the next "must have?"
>
>The 21f1.4 has become my most used lens.   I went to LeMans France with
>a 12, a 21, and a 35.  Don't recall using the 35 at all.  Used the 12 a
>little.  (I had an X1 that did some duties a 35 would have done.)
>
>Something to think about is do you want the 21 or the 24.
>
>Historically, Leica didn't make a 24, there was a 28 and a 21.
>
>Now, you can get lenses down to 12, and Leica makes them down to what,
>16?
>
>But the 21f1.4 and 24f1.4 are ultra-fast and very wide.
>
>Since I often shoot the 21 without the accessory finder (point and guess
>or center with the finder and guess) I sometimes wonder if the 24 (which
>is probably easy to guesstimate with the main finder) might not also be
>very good.
>
>In a few days I'll finish a sofobomo book, and post the link here since
>it's all Leica shots.
>(Many with the 21f1.4)
>
>
> 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: lug-bounces+bryanwi=bryanwi.com at leica-users.org
>[mailto:lug-bounces+bryanwi=bryanwi.com at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
>Vick Ko
>Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 6:06 AM
>To: Leica Users Group
>Subject: [Leica] 21mm f1.4 Summilux - the next "must have?"
>
>Is the 21mm f1.4 Summilux - the next "must have?"
>
>What are users finding?
>
>Vick
>
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