Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Simon I have a third version 28/2.8 Elmarit and it is a fantastic lens. I purchased it new about 5 years ago. If you'd asked me about it up until a year ago, I would had said very little, because I didn't use it much. I purchased a new 35/2 Summicron about the same time I bought the Elmarit. The Summicron was the only M lens I used. I shot mainly b/w and I very rarely carried a second lens. Last winter I started using an M for color work. I also bought a 50/1.4 Summilux and a 21/2.8 Elmarit ASPH. The 28/2.8 filled the gap between those two better than the 35/2 Summicron. I now carry the 28 and I primarily use it for landscapes and architecture. Both can be very demanding of a lens. The 28/2.8 performs extremely well. It has excellent contrast, extremely low distortion, and light falloff isn't an issue to me even wide open. In practice I nearly always close it down a stop or two, where it performs superbly. When I project slides taken with my Elmarit in conjunction with slides that were taken with my 28 Nikkors the Elmarit slides seem to elicit more positive comments. Dave