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Subject: [Leica] Was: Screw the Nocti, Now: 28mm And BeThere
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2015 15:12:52 -0400

Thanks Bob. I have my newest lens glued to my camera right now its a 35mm
lens and all my previous 35mm lenses for my Nikon system were cheap ones. I
was in cheapskate mode when I got all of them. but his one is a latest from
the people at Nikon.
Its the 35mm f/1.8 AF-S NIKKOR 35mm f/1.8G ED which sells for $596.95
It focuses in the dark perfectly as well as renders things out of the dark
like you'd expect a very expensive 1.4 too.
Before that I had a 50mm f/1.8 AF-S NIKKOR 50mm f/1.8G glued to my camera
for many months while saving for the 35.
I am now saving for the tele. An  f/1.8 AF-S NIKKOR 85mm f/1.8G
It reminds me of my Leica days buying fixed focal length lenes one at a time
for very basic usage and having to wait very many months between new lenes.


On 4/6/15 2:55 PM, "Robert D. Baron" <robertbaron1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> A good point, Mark.
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Its not the best thinking became you are replacing a 35 with a 28 thinking
>> they will be about the same while they are quite different.  (one of my
>> favorite Rockwell quirks)/ A 35 is a slightly wide angle lens and a 28 is 
>> a
>> decidedly wide angle lens. I've always assigned them completely different
>> usages.
>> 
>> 
>> On 4/6/15 10:13 AM, "Robert D. Baron" <robertbaron1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 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.
>>>>>>> 
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>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> Photographer
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>> 
>> 
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