Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net> Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 01:01 Subject: Re: [Leica] noct performance 50's > Makes it much more pocketable. A camera in you pocket > is a camera that is with you. True, but the M6 with the Summicron 1:2/35 ASPH is already very tiny! It's just a little baby lens--deceiving in appearance, in fact, since it's always amazing to see how nice the results are. Somehow a tiny lens doesn't fit the stereotype of fine optics. > Put a 50mm 1.4 on your damn Nikon and give it a fair shot! That would not be fair, because I don't walk around with a 50mm prime on my Nikon. The Nikon _always_ has a zoom mounted on it, and normally that is the AF-S 28-70. Therefore I need to compare to the AF-S. This zoom is a very good lens that approaches primes in many respects. I want to know if this Noctilux performs better than the AF-S. If it does, it is probably sufficient (at least for my needs) as a general-purpose 50mm lens, which means that with a Noctilux I would not need another 50mm lens for general use. On the other hand, if the Noctilux is worse than the AF-S when stopped down, a second 50mm lens would be necessary. > Godless zoom. A zoom is one of the advantages to the SLR. Have you tried the AF-S 28-70/2.8? If not, it may surprise you. It is _dramatically_ superior to all the other Nikkor zooms I have. -- Anthony