Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Check over on PhotoNet Leica forum or the CVUG list. Seems a very popular addition to to the CV lens lineup. Scott Mark Langer wrote: >I got the CLE body without a lens, and was using my Canon 35/2 on it >until I got the 28/3.5 Cosina Voigtlander. I was keeping my eye open >for either the Leitz or the Minolta 40/2, but thought that the extra >speed of the 40/1.4 might be useful. While the CLE is compact >compared to my M6, it is pretty darn bulky compared to even a Konica >Auto S3, to say nothing of the Rollei 35SE. So if it ain't going to >win prizes in the compact department, I'm not sure that the bigger >bulk of the 40/1.4 is going to be a big factor in my thinking, unless >the camera is unbalanced with that lens. Doesn't anyone have shooting >experience with it? > >Mark > >On 6/7/05, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > >>On 6/7/05 10:19 AM, "Mark Langer" <langeratcarleton@gmail.com> typed: >> >> >> >>>As long as we are on the topic of Voigtlander lenses, who has had >>>experience with the 40/1.4? I've been wondering if I should get one >>>to mount on my Minolta CLE. Anything good or bad that someone can >>>tell me that might guide my decision? >>> >>>Mark >>> >>> >>> >>Well as long as my name is on the thing and so I'm looking at it right off >>then let me say that coincidently I'm a new user of the 40 Summicron which >>I've got on my M6 with a Cosina Voigtl?nder finder and it's about my >>favorite lens. I use it all the time. More than my 50 and more than my 35. >>But this lens was invented of course for use with the CL and CLE. >>It's more or less the standard lens with those cameras. >>Would look and balance well. >> >>The 1.4 is perhaps twice the size. And the CLE and it's use is all about >>compactness it would sure seem to me. >> >>I'd stay with the Leica signature if it was me. Or I was you. Or if you >>thought like me. >>There's an abundance of them out there and they go for cheap cheap cheap. >>And they say "Wetzlar" on them what can I say? >> >>There are filter issues but they don't bother me. It's a .75 pitch instead >>of a .5. Just makes life interesting as far as I go. I took the flimsy >>rubber shade off and just use an adaptor little metal thing as a shade. >>I don't get flair. Or Flare. >>Its the only not "Leica" but "Leitz" lens I use. >>Some think "Leitz" is more Leica than Leica. >> >> >>Mark Rabiner >>Photography >>Portland Oregon >>http://rabinergroup.com/ >> >> >> >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >