Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/06/11

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Subject: [Leica] Favorite Non-Leica-Leica Lens?
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Wed Jun 11 01:16:44 2008
References: <BLU115-W6CB169FD0EF85EAE9B93982B20@phx.gbl>

Not enough to catalogue, but here's my opinion on the few I have:

LTM-Mount

CV 12mm Excellent when you find subjects suitable for it, beautifully 
made, hard to get the exposure right, difficult to keep unwanted bits 
and pieces out of the edges of each frame. Makes good shots for 
panoramas when you crop out the top and bottom.
CV 15mm Excellent all-rounder (a standard lens for me - I like it wide), 
really tiny lens
CV 25 mm Very useful snapshot lens, set deired DOF and use it on 
automatic on a CLE, great for streets and architecture.
CV 50/1.5 Can't say that I've used it much, but I seem to remember it 
was very sharp - paint finish is not good
CV 75mm Excellent low-end telephoto lens - paint finish is even worse. 
At least there's nice brass underneath)

Canon 50/1.4 Very good standard lens for low-light - had a 50/1.2 that 
went mouldy, the 1.4 is considerably better anyway.
Canon 85/1.9 Good lens, prone to flare, nice brass and chrome, too heavy
Canon 135/3.5 Good, also prone to flare, nice brass and chrome, also too 
heavy

M-Mount
Minolta 28/2.8 (CLE) Excellent wide angle, very compact, very light - 
shade tends to fall off
Minolta 40/2 (CLE) Can't really remember ever having used it.
Minolta 90/4 (CLE) Excellent lens, a bit dim, nice and compact, probably 
Leica built

Cheers
Douglas


Greg Lorenzo wrote:
> I've finally cataloged my motley collection of Leica and 
> non-Leica-for-Leica lenses. I rediscovered some oddball lenses that I 
> haven't used for a long while and/or never used before with colour film. 
> Shooting again with some of these I discovered some non-Leica gems amongst 
> the usual Leica gems.  The process got me thinking who else on the list 
> has non-Leica-but-for-Leica lenses that they consider gems? For example: 
> Jupiter 3 50/1.5 Sonnar. Wonderful look with Agfa 160 Portrait Film. Post 
> em' here. Greg J. LorenzoCalgary, Canada
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Replies: Reply from leica at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig) ([Leica] Favorite Non-Leica-Leica Lens?)
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