Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/20

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Subject: [Leica] Re:the Canon Noctilux...
From: FELIXMATURANA at telefonica.net (Félix López de Maturana)
Date: Wed Dec 20 03:58:30 2006
References: <200612200710.kBK75aSf075465@server1.waverley.reid.org>

>
>  but people
> who are used to lenses that might last a couple of years wouldn't touch 
> them
> unless they could carry a few spares.   :) 
Hi Don

I think the right English word is exaggeration. I own, besides eight SLR 
Canon -five if them digital-, a vwery significant bunch of Canon lenses 
some of them with more than 20 years and the only who needed service was 
the 16mm f2.8 fisheye, by far the less used. I agree the building 
quality is not the Leica one, but they are not crap at all and if full 
open they have not the figures of vignetting, sharpness, distortion, etc 
of Leica lenses you just need close some stop to get very good outputs 
as many, many photographers do perfectly know. I have too the Noctilux 
and it's an extraordinary lens for his *features* much more than for his 
*performances*. So often our tools are better than our skill.

Regrads.

F?lix



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