Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Just to add to he quality of the 35MM Asph f1.4. I entered into a juried compettion a 20x24 enlargment made from a slide using the 35MM Asph 1.4. I have printed the full image and it looks sweet. The Competition was a open medium 600 entrants 90 selected for showing < my current status> 10 photo's. IT is hard for me to imagine that the image would have held up with another lens. Yes I shot the picture with a tripod and a cable release. I will keep you informed ans to the results of the competion. Jerry Jim Brick wrote: > > >Frank Dernie wrote: > > > >> Austin I have not read this quote. What I have read is that the 1st version > >> was originally announced as a series of 2000, later revised to 1000, and > >> that fewer than that were actually sold. I have one on my M6 most of the > >> time. I bought it used for about the same price (at the time) as the then > >> new 2nd version (asph instead of aspherical). > > > > At 06:18 PM 2/19/00 +0100, Lucien wrote: > > >Frank, > > > >According to the Leica staff during the 1998 Photokina LUG's meeting, > >there was 2.000 35/1,4 Aspherical made. > >No more, no less. > > > >Lucien > > Lucien is correct. I was there. And from what Leica says, the lenses > perform equally well, the single ASPH is cheaper and easier to make, the > double ASPH has thus garnered collector status therefore the high price. > > I have and use often, the latest single 35/1.4 ASPH. I may well be the > finest lens I have ever owned/used. And I have, and have had, a lot of > Leica and Zeiss lenses over the past 50 years. > > Jim