Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The Nikon glass, Leica body combination is in current revival with the Cosina lenses. It's precisely why I don't like using the CV lenses, as it reminds me of their 60-70's tonality. Having been literally brought up on the coolness of Leitz, Zeiss, and Schneider glass, the 'nikon' look grates on my visual sensibility. S. Dimitrov > From: Karen Nakamura <mail@gpsy.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 11:00:44 +0900 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: New Zeiss Ikon > >> >> How about users? Does anybody use them? I cant help thinking if there were >> any good than I'd have at one point in my life seen one. > > I occasionally used my S2, sold it, and now have an S3 which I > occasionally use. The glass is excellent, very nice, kind of a Sonnar > look to everything. The viewfinder is less than stellar. I've looked > through other S3s and they're all the same. Kind of dim compared to > the Leica M3. > > Tom Abrahamsson regularly carries around his SP which is rather > tattered looking. > > So there are some S-users out there. But very few I think would > claim that the *body* was better than the Leica. We are all fans of > the early Nikon lenses. If the Nikon->Leica M adapter were more > available, we'd be using that. That's part of the reason that Mr. > Kobayashi came out with the Voigtlander Bessa R2S - to allow us to > use the wonderful S glass. > > Karen > > -- > Karen Nakamura > http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/ > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information