Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I will be reposting this as long as aomeone write a answer. And if someone thinks about killfile, I will dig out from there and shout and be ghastly :-) Seriously: Doesn't anyone have anything to add? Better discuss about cowshit? St. (Stanislaw B.A. Stawowy) http://www.geocities.com/Stanislaw_Stawowy - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stanislaw B.A. Stawowy" <watteau@krakow.neurosoft.net> To: "Leica Users Group" <leica-users-digest@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 12:00 PM Subject: Summitar, Elmar, Jupiter > Hello friends! > I recently tested these three lenses: > Coated Summitar 2/50 collapsible > Coated Industar 22 3.5/50 collapsible (is this a Elmar copy?) > Coated Jupiter 3 1.5/50 - Sonnar copy > > Results are somewhat strange for me: > > At f/2 Jupiter was way ahead of Summitar > At f/4 Industar/Elmar outperformed (wide open!) both > Jupiter and Summitar, Jupiter took second place. > At f/5.6 all lenses performed equally well > At f/8 Summitar was best, Jupiter and Industar were worse, > but still acceptable quality > > At similar scale, Jupiter 12 (2.8/35, recent production) > outperformed all these lenses from f/4 up to f/8 > > Please comment this. I hope both Marc Small and Erwin Puts > will have something to say about optical qualities of these lenses. > > > St. > (Stanislaw B.A. Stawowy) > http://www.geocities.com/Stanislaw_Stawowy > >