Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>>>> That was a silly remark, Doug. I guess Canon's lenses are unusable at >>>> maximum aperture, since I know that Nikkors are. Are there any other >>>> competitors. >> >> >> >> >> >> Silly, certainly! They will be *unusable* many years after Leica will >> be nothing but history. >> >> Felix >> > > >Felix, it was Daniel who made the 'unusable' remark. Perhaps you should >address this comment to him. I didn't write anythign about 'unusable'. > >Doug Herr >Birdman of Sacramento >http://www.wildlightphoto.com Doug I never thought I was replying your -BTW very accurate- message but the original one with his generalization. I'm a M and R system user and nobody needs telling me about the inherent Leica qualities. Probably the best ever built in the past and -just if they survive- in the future. But I cannot suffer this kind of statements: Leica is the marvel others are bullshit. In the same way Rolls Royce -precisely having 100 years nowadays- have chosen excellence, and I know the man here in Biscay who owns the biggest RR collection-, Leica have made the choice of nothing but the best not looking at the final price. This has produced some of the best lenses and bodies ever built. More on the M side than on the R side. Other manufacturers have had another choices bearing in mind that the money in the pocket of the people -pros and aficionados- is scarce and have to supply other necessities. Their effort have been on the way of producing tools the best they can for a scheduled final price. Some of them reached very good results and I sincerely believe that this effort has as much merit as doing the best without restrictions. They cannot be labeled as *unusable* This is in absolutes terms false and a unmerited scorn. Coming back to zooms I own and use some wide zooms, as I much more interested in the wide side more that the tele -having nonetheless several 400mm lenses-, and comparing the Canon 16-35 2.8 with the Nikkor 17-35 2.8 and the Vario Elmar 21-35 the later is the best in vignetting, distortion and sharpness but no so much as to considered *unusable* the others quite the contrary. My Nikkor 28-70 2.8 and Canon 24-70 2.8 are not very far of Leica zooms and Canon 24-84, Nikkor 25-50 MF and 24-50AF are more than acceptable. For more extensive tests you can ask our friends who owns more lenses that my two hundred specimens like Joseph Yao and in the Contax list Kaiser Chen. Just say Leica is better -that actually is- and no necessity of scorning other valuable products. Regards Felix