Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This missive was longer than most of your editorials! 8') Rob Mueller EDS E.Solutions Consulting Enterprise Integration and Middleware Services Mailstop 4198 pager 888.997.1294 Office 248.265.3365 - -----Original Message----- From: Mike Johnston [mailto:michaeljohnston@ameritech.net] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 7:13 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: [Leica] Thanks I personally can't wait for the Konica. Although I love the M6, I prefer an aperture-preferred AE camera, and I love Konica lenses--always have. Incidentally, here's a brief bit of translation from the Japanese website, courtesy of Oren Grad: "All surfaces of all of the M-Hexanon interchangeable lenses are multicoated; from open aperture, flare and ghosts are suppressed and high contrast is secured. "In every lens as well, spherical aberration being of the undercorrected type, tangential and sagittal astigmatism being of the utmost uniformity, flare is suppressed at full aperture, and soft, natural boke [blur] without ni-sen [double-line] boke is secured. "Also, far from SLR lenses which must accommodate the mirror housing, the flange-back is short, so aberration correction is well-secured, and naturally, the strengths of fixed focal-length lenses being made the most of, distortion too is well-suppressed." Thanks to the people who welcomed me back and asked about the "50mm only" experiment (the last time I was on the LUG, I was talking about using only a 50mm lens for a year). It's not really that much of a stretch, as for me the basic question is whether to use only a 35mm lens or only a 50mm lens. I've used 50mm almost exclusively this past year, testing and reviewing duties aside...but I've used about 6 different 50mms.. Is that cheating? <s> I actually did one assignment with a _zoom_ (ew!), and I'd like a pat on the back for that, please. Incidentally, in the next issue, in our "Collector Print Offer" series (which has been popular beyond our wildest hopes, which explains why we keep doing it), I'm going to be offering four prints of my own that demonstrate, at least as far as I am able to do, examples of "reference standard" optical quality in 35mm lenses. I'm having a devil of a time deciding which lenses to include and which to leave out; so far I've settled on pictures made with two Zeiss lenses (don't hiss, now, you Leica people), the c. 1954 collapsible-mount 50mm Leica Summicron-M (now you can applaud), and a lovely Pentax M42 screwmount lens that you can buy these days for about $79. I would actually like to include an example of the wonderful 50mm f/2 Olympus macro lens, but I don't seem to have a suitable picture...most of my work is truly "personal" and in most cases it would be a stretch to imagine anyone wanting to put my artwork on their walls. I've tried to find pictures that are both good examples of what the lens in question can do, but that are also fine prints of pleasing subject matter. Not particularly easy, presuming that most people would not want to buy photographs of my relatives! Erg, I'm maundering. Sorry for using up all this bandwidth... - --Mike J.