Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/21

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Subject: [Leica] New Leica M Stuff
From: richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:51:10 -0700
References: <CA26873F.1095D%mark@rabinergroup.com> <89F9AAB3-67E3-4787-8E82-DAA7DB5D816F@charter.net>

Try the Zeiss, it gets much closer to Leica's quality for 1/3 the price

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Slobodan Dimitrov
<s.dimitrov at charter.net>wrote:

> To tell the truth, I've have been less than satisfied with the CV line. I
> say this in spite of have owned a slew of their lenses.
> They are inconsistent quality wise. They are also a nostalgic attempt to
> replay the look of Nikon glass from the 70's. I didn't like the look then, 
> I
> dislike it even more now. The only time I was satisfied with the end 
> product
> from that old glass, was from a studio shoot, with massive over lighting, 
> or
> with infrared.
> On one hand, having owned a 50 Elmar-M, I think I would really like the
> look of the 21mm Super Elmar-M. On the other hand, as it's not 
> commercially,
> or personally, viable to use the current M line with my current shooting
> practice, it's somewhat moot in even considering one.
> S.d.
>
> --
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In reply to: Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] New Leica M Stuff)
Message from s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov) ([Leica] New Leica M Stuff)