Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:36 AM 9/14/98 -0400, you wrote: >Note: > >Have no xperience with Zeiss 85mm, F1.4; but, am very happy with the results >of my R 80mm, F1.4... and feel strongly it should be on Lucien's list >generating this >thread over the weekend of 9/12-9/13/98! I have used the Zeiss lens, and have seen many pictures taken with the 80. I'd say the 80 gets the edge for "character" and color rendition. I think the Zeiss lens is a tad bit too cold in it's color rendition. Sharpness, the Zeiss is so close as to be inconsequential in that difference alone. That being said, the 80 is a very special lens. I would like one, but since I have the 75 Summilux, which is very similar, I'll probably go with a 90 Summicron R APO ASPH when it comes out. - -- Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him (and her) to keep on looking. - -Brooks Atkinson, 1951