Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I admit that most of the excitement twinkling around the M's is 90% voodoo and 10% true logic! I love the M's even though I'm currently using a Nikon. The nikkor lens (50mm f/1.8) is obviously better than the 1960s summicron I have and it's not a matter of taste, it's a matter of fact! The summicron has really poor contrast and vignets from f/2 to around f/4. At smaller apertures it's good. Good but not awsome and at least the nikkor is clearly better. The debate concerning M's versus reflex leads to real conclusions, ie. the noise, the absence of lightning mirror...But what the hell, Robert Doisneau used reflex cameras and did good shooting I think. So I am not going to sell my M2 cause I still love it (maybe I'll get another summicron...) but I'm going to partly solve the problem by the use of the beautiful SL2 I recently got! I'll compare it to the nikon! Thib.