Re: [Leica] Re:Consensus? Skopar 24mm

["Steve LeHuray" <icommag@toad.net>]

I do not really want to join the "what lens is better debate" but I would 
like to say for me the 'ancient' Summilux 50/1.4 has a wonderful glow that I
love. You don't seem to find that look on other 50's and when I manage to
come up with the money I will have one.
Steve
Annapolis

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>From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
>To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>Subject: RE: [Leica] Re:Consensus? Skopar 24mm
>Date: Fri, Apr 7, 2000, 2:14 PM
>

> Well the Nokton (Cosina) 50 1.5, with a LTM to M adapter, is about $500-525.
> What's the Summilux, which is optically not quite as good, $1600-1700?
> The 75 2.5, which is good, but not as good as the 75 Summilux 1.4, is about
> 1/5th of the price of the Leica lens....and so on...
>
> Except for the 50, the Cosina's aren't as "good" as their Leica
> counterparts, but that doesn't mean they aren't "good." And it also doesn't
> mean that they aren't a good way for someone getting into Leica photography
> to expand his or her lens range at reasonable cost....I know it will come as
> a shock to many on this list, but some of us are using Leica Ms because they
> are the best RANGEFINDER cameras available, and have good optics...and if
> Canon or Nikon made good rangefinders, and Leica didn't but made great
> reflexes, we would still be using Canons or Nikons because we want a
> RANGEFINDER camera....
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of
> DonjR43198@aol.com
> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 1:04 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:Consensus? Skopar 24mm
>
>
> In a message dated 4/7/00 11:55:41 AM Central Daylight Time,
> bdcolen@earthlink.net writes:
>
> << Excellent point....Nor, I guess, would someone looking at two photos side
> by
>  side, of different subjects, comment on the sharpness of the lenses they
>  were shot with, rather than on the photos themselves, UNLESS one lens was a
>  coke bottle bottom...and MTF graphs aside, that doesn't seem to be the case
>  with the Cosinas. I know it's certainly not the case with the Nokton, which
>  produces terrific results...
>   >>
> What is the comparable price of the Cosinas, Nokton and Leica lenses?
>
> Don R.
>