Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/07/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And the 15 Zeiss was the tipping $ point that was not made by Cosina, putting it out of my reach. I do have the 15 VC but virtually never use it. I regret not doing a PAW, and admire those doing a PAW or PESO. The pressure of doing a PAW made me think photographic thoughts every day. And, pathologically, digital seem to steal some of the magic. Instead of scanning 36 frames, I was editing 720 frames. Sent from my iPad Jeffery L. Smith New Orleans, Louisiana USA On Jul 9, 2012, at 22:24, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote: > I think the 15mm is the only asph in the ZM range. I suspect that the > Zeiss SLR range will start to get asph lenses as CA is a big issue on the > D800(E) with them. > > john > ________________________________________ > > > I'm willing to throw Zeiss into that as well. I'm not sure that Zeiss uses > as much asph as Leica, or if they just don't mention it in the lens name. > > It is probably a flaw in my standards that I don't care so much about > corner sharpness. If the corner is that important, I should have put it in > the middle instead of the corner. > > Other than my Russian lenses, virtually everything I own is good enough > for me (= better than me). I really don't like anything about zoom lenses > and rarely use them on my dSLR cameras. > > Sent from my iPad > > Jeffery L. Smith > New Orleans, Louisiana > USA > > On Jul 9, 2012, at 21:49, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote: > >> Ah, I was talking Leica asph ;-) >> >> john >> ________________________________________ >> >> >> The Voigtlander 50/1.5 Nokton was perhaps the first really sharp, >> afforable, asph lens that people hated for its bokeh. The trend in >> thinking seemed to be that reducing aberrations with asph elements >> benefitted everything except bokeh. >> >> I think every lens needs to be assessed on its own merit. I don't have >> any bad Leica lenses, though the old 50/3.5 Elmar performs like a Russian >> copy. Wait, maybe it is.... >> >> The 50/2.5 Hexanon is better. >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> Jeffery L. Smith >> New Orleans, Louisiana >> USA >> >> On Jul 9, 2012, at 20:56, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote: >> >>> I think that is a widely held misconception.... >>> >>> john >>> ________________________________________ >>> >>> >>> By the way, George, you had some incredibly creamy-bokeh shots posted >>> the other day, and one of them was with an aspherical Leica lens(!). It >>> blew away my bias that aspherical = bad bokeh. >>> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information