Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/06/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Frank, And Leica has? At US$ 10,995 (or thereabouts) a shot - for making better prints? Are you serious? For making better prints I will stick to a Nikon 50mm f1.8 or a Fuji 35mm f1.4!!! Cheers Jayanand On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 3:58 PM, FRANK DERNIE <frank.dernie at btinternet.com> wrote: > Quite so, but have you noticed how huge they are? > I seem to remember an interview with a Leica lens designer who said they > it was relatively easy to get excellent performance from a lens if size > and weight are not constrained. At the time he was talking about the > difficulty of producing excellent lenses for the M without blocking the > viewfinder and that the R lenses were easier. > Those new super lenses (Zeiss and the Sigma 35 and 50) are huge and very > heavy. I fear they have been encouraged by pixel peeping 100% digital > files on computer screens and typical internet discussions thereof, rather > than producing better prints. > FD > > > >>________________________________ >> From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> >>To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>Sent: Saturday, 14 June 2014, 18:25 >>Subject: Re: [Leica] A comparative test of 50mm lenses, including four of >>our collective faves, with hard numbers >> >> >>To me the surprise is the Sigma, without a doubt. AP also rated it >>extremely high, calling it the best SLR 50mm available. I think it (and >>it's 35mm f1.4 sibling) is the portent of things to come - very high >>quality lenses at comparitively affordable prices... >>Cheers >>Jayanand >> >>Sent from my iPad >> >>> On 14-Jun-2014, at 10:26 pm, Jeff Moore <jbmmllug at jbm.org> wrote: >>> >>> [a re-send of something I tried to share while the saloon was boarded up] >>> >>> Roger at Lensrentals continues to do good stuff while playing with his >>> new testing equipment. >>> >>> Spoiler alert: the 50mm APO Summicron really is good, just like we >>> thought. >>> >>> http://blog.lensrentals.com/blog/2014/06/comparing-rangefinder-and-slr-50mm-lenses-version-0-7 >>> >>> -Jeff >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information