Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Robert Appleby wrote: > > Just back from a few days at Brian Stevens' place in London, where I also > met up with John Brownlow to discuss our plans to achieve universal > domination. Unfortunately we've had to reschedule our assumption of power > by a couple of months, but despite this disappointment we had a nice time > wondering in the gloom of London. Brian has just recently bought a 50 > summicron, as I did also a couple of months ago, and we were both noting > how disappointed we are with the results. There's a definite feel/look to > the new 35 asphs which leaves the 50/2 for dead. Brian uses the 35/2 and I > use the 35/1.4. If I have understood Erwin's comments on the 50/2, it has > excellent resolution etc but my feeling is that the newer lenses have a > much greater _perceived_ sharpness. Put slides from the 50 next to the > 35/1.4 or 24/2.8 asphs and they really look soft and wishywashy. Well, > that's what I felt, anyway, does anyone have the same/conflicting feelings? > Meanwhile, Happy Christmas and so on. > Rob. > Robert Appleby I've done two intensive "jobs" which resulted in a bunch of slides being sorted on the light table. I was struck how all the slides matched. In the past my 50 Summicron was less flair prone and snappier than my 90 2.8 Elmarit. It matches completely my 90 apo Asph Summicron and i feel it also matches my 35 Asph Summicron. I've always felt the 50 Summicron was the lens to beat. Much less easy to use than the 35 which i can shoot at a 30th of a second and get much DOF. The 50 Summicron i need at a least a 60th and I'm not real happy until I'm at 125th and i have to be much more careful about what I'm getting in focus. I think the 50's are the easiest lenes to make for the 35mm format and generally the best. The companies seem to put a lot of energy into the short teles which seem to get much of the glory for being the sharpest. They have to beat my 50. IF they match I'm happy. They match. My Nikons did not match. My 50 1.4 had the same snap as my 108 2.5 and 2.8 macro but the rest of them were softer the further out they got. Especially the wides. mark :) rabiner updated temporary Website by "Foxy": http://spokenword.to/rabiner/