Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At Thu, 15 Jan 1998 23:55:14 +0900, pcb@iac.co.jp (Paul C. Brodek) wrote:= > I'm still thinking about getting a 28mm lens, trying to decide between > a current 28mm/2.8 Elmarit-M (best available, but pricey and big) and > the 28mm/2.8 Ricoh GR-1 (decent performance, compact and almost half > the price of the Elmarit). Are you thinking about getting the whole GR-1, or just the lens to bolt o= n = your Leica? I have the camera, and am still getting used to it. As a = point-and-shoot package, the GR-1 is quite appealing, and I've seen some = entirely acceptable photographs which were laid down by that lens; but s= o = far, not one has had the visceral appeal of a decent example of imaging b= y = modern Leica glass. This is as anecdotal and unscientific as it gets, of= = course, and could just be the luck of the snapshooter's draw. Question: is performance at f/2.8 of any particular interest? The newest= M = 28mm is unusually, improbably, impossibly good wide open. The GR-1's exp= osure = program, interestingly, jumps immediately from f/2.8 to f/4 at = still-difficult-to-handhold shutter speeds, stays there until the shutter= = speeds get more sensible, then starts stopping down some more. This may = tell = us something about what the GR-1's designers know about the lens... -Jeff