Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/04/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi George, having owned a Mamiya 7 43mm lens for a year and shooting a lot with the SWC/M lately, I have to say that in terms of raw sharpness, the 43mm definitely holds an edge. I have 20x24" prints to prove it. Not that the SWC Biogon is a slouch, it produces some of the nicest images I have taken ever. http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20150421-Scanned-911.jpg On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 2:28 PM, George Lottermoser < george.imagist at icloud.com> wrote: > > On Apr 23, 2015, at 3:36 PM, Richard Man wrote: > > > The Mamiya 7 43mm is a "better Biogon than the Biogon" myth has been > > repeated so much that I just want to shed some lights on the issues. > > The Mamiya-Sekor 50 mm f:6.3 for the Universal and Press 23 > was the most outstanding and remarkable wide lens I've ever owned. > < > http://www.mamiyaleaf.com/assets/files/documentation/Universal_Lenses_and_DOF.pdf > > > > The lens, intended for 6 x 9, actually "almost" covered 4x5 in the studio. > > And I've owned a slew of Super Angulons including: 21 mm 3.4 for M, 21 mm > 4 for R, 90 mm, 121 mm, 165 mm; > and the 58 mm SA XL - which is the only one that actually out shined the > Mamiya. > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto // https://instagram.com/richardmanphoto