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Subject: [Leica] How many 21mm Summilux users here? Are you all happy with the lens?
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:28:55 -0400

> Does your 90mm Elmar C work well on your M6 and M8? I know there's
> just a short throw to cover its range of focus; is this a problem at
> all?
> 
> I have heard all kinds of cautions and caveats over the years about
> them on M bodies other than the CL.
> 
> On 16 July 2010 22:36, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
>>> 
>>> Yes the value of Elmarit ?bellies are going down while Lux bellies are 
>>> going
>>> up.
>>> We'd then ask to see what results from your 21mm f2.8 ASPH And what f1.4
>>> would ask to the work. As if that had any meaning to the discussion.
>>> 
>>> Its sounding much more ?like "what's the lens we have to have now" to 
>>> show
>>> how rich or cool we are.
>>> 
>>> I do think the example on the LUG the acronym being what it is is USE not
>>> ownership and buying and selling.
>> 
>> I'm pretty sensitive to the subject of 21 mm lenses.
>> 
>> The first 21 I didn't buy was an M4 and an 21 SA f4 with finder for
>> $500 back in 1985.? I spent the money on a Kaypro computer, if you can
>> imagine.
>> 
>> Fast forward to when Voigtlander/Cosina introduced those midget 21
>> lenses.? I bought one and liked it.
>> 
>> A little later, I had a chance to make a bargain on a 21 Elmarit 2.8
>> pre-asph as part of a batch of gear, and promptly sold it to GeeBee,
>> because it is such a big lens.
>> 
>> Two years ago, I found a 21 Super Angulon? f3.4 with a little haze in
>> it for real cheap.? I sent it to DAG, and he cleaned it right up, and
>> its a right nice lens.? I'm learning to use it, especially now that
>> I'm shooting more film.? It is more fun with film than with the M8.
>> There's a nice discussion on these old fellows in the Tom Abrahamsson
>> section of RFF
>> 
>> ?I kept the teeny VC 21 until just recently, and I gave it to a young
>> friend who need such a lens.
>> 
>> Back to Rab's subject, I was looking at my lens list, and it is not
>> too exotic.? I ?have fun with them though.
>> 
>> 15mm Voigtl?nder,? 21mm Super-Angulon f4,??28mm Elmarit asph,? 35mm
>> Summicron asph,?40mm Summicron C (shows 35mm frames), 50mm DR
>> Summicron (fixed for M8),?75 mm Summarit, 90mm Elmar C, 90mm
>> Tele-Elmarit.
>> 
>> Usually the M8 gets the 35, and the M6 gets the 40. ?I keep the 21 on my 
>> M2
>> 
>> 
>> Sonny
>> http://www.sonc.com
>> http://sonc.stumbleupon.com/
>> Natchitoches, Louisiana
>> 
>> USA
>> 


I have the 21 ASPH Elmarit.
Its a reason to shoot Leica.
I don't shoot with it wide open all that often will 1.4 give me a brighter
groundglass? No as there is not one.

[Rabs]
Mark William Rabiner





In reply to: Message from dmorton at gmail.com (David Morton) ([Leica] How many 21mm Summilux users here? Are you all happy with the lens?)