Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I really think on most camera lists with guys trading back and forth opinions on a lens they've bought and sold back and forth there'd be showing uploads of examples they'd shot with that lens early on or at least some time during the thread. It would not be "oh I looked at mine the other day and it looked real nice". Because here its really sounding like which lens is more fun to fondle. The "Mandler" or the non Mandler. It sounding like the Mandler makes a better handler. Me whenever I like a lens its always because some where along the line I seemed to have taken a picture with it. Then I blow some of I it up in my darkroom. Then hang it on the wall or put it in a portfolio and show it to people. That's when I start liking the lens, seeing what results it makes for me. Not because it feels real good in my hand one day ... Here its now sounding like all theoretical rhetoric. I really think those days of just BS'ing on photo chat lists are over. Mark William Rabiner By the way here's a shot I did with my 21mm M Elmarit 2.8. The darkroom 16x20s I'd made with it made my former wide champ my Nikkor 24 2.8 look very average and unremarkable. Non scintillating. But like the prairie home companion guy says we're all very much slightly above average and that's just find and dandy. (to paraphrase) http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/060929_lhsa_wetz_158.jpg.html Its the K?lner Dom (Dome of Cologne) 21mm Leica Elmarit Asph Ilford XP2 film 060 yellow green filter > From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:18:59 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] 35mm Summicron R lens - good , bad, so so? > > Vic, > > I have the 28 Elmarit-R, which is fairly compact. Would work great on the > R9, but is a little hard to focus on my Oly DSLRs. > > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Vick Ko" <vick.ko at sympatico.ca> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 8:58 AM > Subject: Re: [Leica] 35mm Summicron R lens - good , bad, so so? > > >> Thanks Marty. >> >> I sold my 35/1.4 R, partially due to it being too heavy. >> >> I'm thinking of getting a 35/2 R. Or maybe only reserving my 35mm focal >> length shooting to M camera. >> >> But I would like a small R lens to use on my R9. I only have superwides >> and tele's for it. >> >> regards >> >> >> Vick >> >> >> >> >> On 6/21/2011 8:01 AM, Marty Deveney wrote: >>> I just played with some 35mm R lenses recently. The Mandler version >>> of the lens is really great. It's very flare resistant with light >>> sources in the frame, has excellent colour reproduction and few >>> serious flaws. It occasionally flares when there are diffuse, bright >>> sources of light outside the frame, much like the 50/2 Summicron-M >>> six-element versions. With an SLR you can usually see the flare >>> before you shoot. The Summilux-R is better until about f2.8-4, where >>> they become equal, and has better close up and near-far performance >>> because of its floating element. But the Summilux has more optical >>> vignetting, and has a 67mm filter thread, and is much heavier, instead >>> of 55 for the Summicron. >>> >>> Marty >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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