Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/10

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Subject: [Leica] The world is awash with M9.......
From: chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com (Chris Crawford)
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:38:38 -0400

So, explain the current Summarit lenses? Leica explicitly said they were
designed to be cheap.

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On 4/10/12 11:43 PM, "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:

>Yep that's Leica's business model!  Designing cheap glass.
>
>- - from my iRabs.
>Mark Rabiner
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/
>
>
>> From: Dante Stella <dstella1 at ameritech.net>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:56:39 -0400
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Cc: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] The world is awash with M9.......
>> 
>> The 28mm Elmarit ASPH is challenged in the corners because it is
>>designed to
>> be a cheap (orig $1,600) compact lens, no?
>> 
>> Dante
>> 
>> On Apr 10, 2012, at 19:03, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> The 28 Elmarit 2.8 ASPH appeared to be designed for the M8 not the
>>> Summicron - its performance drops in the corners when used wide open
>>> on a 24x36mm frame as you can see on the MTF chart linked from here:
>>> http://us.leica-camera.com/photography/m_system/lenses/2194.html.  The
>>> 28 Summicron is sharp right out to the corners, and has a very flat
>>> field.  H. Ball Arche, who used to use a 28 a lot and posted here
>>> prolifically, didn't like the flat field because it made heads in the
>>> corners of the frame look like footballs - he preferred the C-V 28/1.9
>>> which had greater barrel distortion and a less flat field, but less
>>> apparent distortion of things like heads in the corners.  A nice
>>> display of the compromises optical design includes.
>>> 
>>> The 35 Summicron ASPH was designed during the film era and in some
>>> ways doesn't perform as well as the 35 Summilux ASPH II with the
>>> floating element, but it's still pretty formidable.  On the M8 I
>>> prefer a 28 to a 35, but I think generally I prefer a 28 overall, even
>>> if it is the Nikkor 28mm f1.4 which is actually a ~31mm lens.  After
>>> Leica revises the 50 Summicron (now the oldest lens in the M line up
>>> and the only Summicron without aspherical element(s)) the 35 and 90
>>> ASPH Summicrons are probably next, because they are the oldest.
>>> 
>>> Summicron 28 (borrowed, and my, look at that magenta!):
>>> 
>>>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Freakscene_001/L1002579.jpg.
>>>html
>>> Nikkor 28: 
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Tsukiji/File0825.jpg.html
>>> 
>>> Marty
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 6:40 AM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz>
>>>wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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