Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]No you didn't say that, sorry! I caught that later. - - from my iRabs. Mark Rabiner http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/ > From: John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:10:53 +0000 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] The world is awash with M9....... > > Where are you coming from Mark? > Where has it been said that they are lowering quality?? > Where is it said that they designed an M lens for smaller than 24mm x > 36mm??? > > I am on record here in saying how good the 28mm Summicron is..... > > All I am saying, and this backed up by users on this list, is that a 28mm > lens > becomes the equivalent of a 35mm on the M8 and that is a more used focal > length than 28mm is for FF. > > Please read (and understand) what is being said rather than making things > up. > > john > ________________________________________ > > > It strike me as phantasmagorical baloney that Leica lowered its standards > on > edge quality to make the compact Leica 35mm f/2 SUMMICRON-M ASPH ideal for > the M8 making it less ideal for the M9. By the way the lens is now being > sold new for just over four grand $. > I don't think Leica has ever made a lens for a crop camera and has stated > over and over any lens it ever makes will be fully usable on a film M. > I don't t think anything is going to get it to settle for less than > excellent edge quality for its M glass going straight out to a 43.3mm image > crop circle.... > The 28 Summicron is a gem and at the top of my list for my next Leica > lens. > This lowering of quality thing is a LUG myth which I don't think we're > going > to find documented elsewise. > > > - - from my iRabs. > Mark Rabiner > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/ > > >> From: John McMaster <john at chiaroscuro.co.nz> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:47:45 +1200 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] The world is awash with M9....... >> >> That is more of an M8 staple rather than the 35mm/50mm of the M9..... >> >> john >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> I have seen more 28 Summicron for sale in the last month than last 2 >> years. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information