Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/06/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]From: "Jon Mitchell <jmitch@panama.phoenix.net>" <jmitch@panama.phoenix.net> Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 03:17:57 +0000 Hello LUGers, Does anyone know how much an Orion 28mm LTM costs? Are they screw mount? Do they make any other cost efficient wide-angles? I read about a Russian 20mm f5.6 on the internet, has anyone brought one? Several people on the LUG have these 20/5.6 Russars, including me. I'm happy with mine, although it's my second -- my first had some manufacturing defects and I returned it for an exchange. Contrast and flare control are quite good, and geometrically it seems free of distortion. It does vignette noticaeably at the corners, but not more than about 3/4 stop at the extremes. It seems a bit soft, although I don't know if this is due to my tendency to use fast color negative film with it -- I'm more used to shooting slow film, but the Russar has no RF coupling, and is slow and painful to switch aperture settings on, so I just leave it stopped down to around f/11 or f/16 when shooting, and this requires fast film. I have scanned a number of shots I took with it, using a Sprintscan 35 Plus, whose 2700 dpi scanning resolution is high enough to resolve pretty much all the detail on the fast films I've been using with this lens. I don't have a non-work-related web site (and photography is not my work), so I haven't put any up on the Web, but I may eventually, especially if I make a more concerted effort to evaluate the quality of the lens. - -Patrick