Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/04/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I bought the 28mm Summicron-M ASPH I think at about the time it was released, IIRC at the Leica Seminar on Cape Cod in 2001. I never got comfortable with the focal length and sold it some years later. Now I'm thinking about buying a 28mm Elmarit-M 2.8 to use on my M240, mainly when I'm traveling and don't want to carry my current 35mm Summilux. Is this good thinking? --Bob ===On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 2:00 AM, Jay Burleson <leica at jayburleson.com> wrote: > Erwin Puts: > "The Summicron-M 2/28 mm ASPH. is one of the crown jewels in the Leica > scuderia of lenses. It is a superb lens and after twelve years in > production still not surpassed." > > > > > On 4/5/2015 9:39 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >> Maybe on this thing we should find the specs. The MTF graphs. And or some >> reviews by people who sound like they may know what they're talking >> about. >> Instead of relying on capricious or even malicious chat group gossip. >> I can speak for the finish of the lens a chrome version which looked top >> Leica quality to me. If that accounts for much. >> >> >> On 4/6/15 12:24 AM, "Gene duprey" <grduprey at mchsi.com> wrote: >> >> Interesting. i remember several years ago everyone was praising the 28 >>> Chron. >>> I wonder what has changed? >>> >>> Gene >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Richard Man" <richard at richardmanphoto.com> >>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Sent: Sunday, April 5, 2015 3:06:51 PM >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Screw the Nocti... >>> >>> If I do street documentary, I would get a 28mm (again) for sure. I did >>> most >>> of my "Occupy" series with the 35 or 50mm, and I definitely would have >>> loved a 28mm. >>> >>> Fortunately, the 28mm Cron is the unloved Leica-child, so one can get it >>> for around $2500 now. A bargain compares to the Nocti :-) >>> >>> On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 12:28 PM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Mark, I think you should go back a reread your books ;-) >>>> >>>> john >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Mark Rabiner >>>> Sent: Monday, 6 April 2015 6:08 a.m. >>>> To: Leica Users Group >>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Screw the Nocti... >>>> >>>> Most of us and most photographers I've ever met unless they were just >>>> starting out had both a 28 and a 24. Nobody ever didn't have either. >>>> That >>>> would be crazy. Its always been a basic focal length. Its one of the >>>> frame >>>> lines in M's since the M2 in 1957. >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >