Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/01/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Leica has designed its lenses to include some residual spherical aberration to produce the famed "Leica Glow" by rendering out-of-focus images a tad soft. Thus, it may not be a fair criterion of a Leica lens to judge it by its sharpness alone. Having said that, this user, at any rate, has owned and used every version of the 2/50 and has found the NF (dual-range) to be the most satisfactory, followed closely by the 2/50 rigid chrome Summicron (first generation). I do love the 1.4/50 as well, and use it almost as much as I do my NF lens -- it is a superb optic wide open and only gets better as it is stopped down. Best, Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!