Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/22

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Which Leica M lens is your favorite?
From: Mikiro <arbos@silva.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 18:58:42 +0100

Paul- I agree. This is the one I take if I am told to have only one lens for
M.  It is simply hard to fault.  I always feel Leica optics very very
expensive, but this is an exception.  Its price is even reasonable
cosidering its performance and usefulness in real picture taking.

Mikiro

At 4:46 pm +0100 22/2/00, Paul Chefurka wrote:
>Without a doubt, the 35 Summicron ASPH.  The tonal qualities of this lens
>are remarkable, and images from it seem to have a "massive" quality - wen
>things are right I get a sense of the objects I photograph, be they people
>or things, existing as real objects in real space.  I've never experienced
>that with any other lens, though I think the new 90 APO may have it as well.
>All that and it's sooo good wide open...
>
>Paul Chefurka