Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I akways liked and still do the last M Rokkor On Jul 8, 2009, at 5:15 PM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote: > Leica have an alternative in their current line up also. Tiny when > collapsed > and has some other tricks up its sleeve too, of course. > For travel or when lightest weight is most important, I'm thinking > that it > is a good alternative to the larger (and superb) APO 75 and 90 > http://en.leica-camera.com/photography/m_system/lenses/2191.html > > 2009/7/9 Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > >> http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=864877 >> >> Jonathan Eastland has just reviewed this new 85 and the new 15mm CV >> M for >> the The British Journal of Photography which I get regular emails >> from I'm >> glad I can read British. >> Its being called the >> >> Zeiss ZM Tele-Tessar T* 85mm f/4 >> >> And its just out if its out yet at all! >> >> It's a bit smaller than my 90 Elmarit, Jonathan says. >> Which I take out with me when I'm looking for a more lightweight >> option to >> my awesome 90 APO ASPH. But the Elmarit is still heavy as hell. >> Twice as >> heavy as I normally like to have up front there. >> The new Cosina made ZM 85 is for sure bigger them my LTM 90 elmar >> which >> his >> also f4. >> But smaller than the current yet discontinued Elmarit M designed >> for NASA. >> I love f4 glass on my Leicas why? >> Because I don't have to look through the darned thing. >> Nothing is made darker and harder to focus at f4; >> - it just makes for a super compact flare free optic; >> Which cost less money. >> For me that's getting my cake and eating it too. >> >> Jonathan is impressed with the classic optical design of this new >> 85 for >> the >> Leica M and what they've done to extend that. >> He says it does better at f22 than older Leitz 90mm glass. >> But I bet my Elmar does better at f32. >> (the ZV only goes to f22) >> I'm an f32 and be there kinda guy and yes I've heard the phrase >> "diffraction >> limited". >> >> Naturally I can get the adaptor and shoot my own tiny LTM Elmar 90 >> f4 on my >> M's. >> But it might look kinda silly. >> Its kind of skinny thing like a pinky. People might laugh at me. >> And I'm >> sensitive. >> >> Slow compact glass is where its at I keep saying rinse and repeat. >> But Mr. Kobayashi at Cosina always got it. >> Now the Zeiss people he's working with also have got it. I bet he >> talked >> them into it. >> Zeiss in Germany has been offering a f/2, 85mm Sonnar T* monster >> which >> cost >> a fortune and really was a Zeiss lens made in Germany. Generally >> you can >> tell by the price. If it cost $ 2,912.00 (B&H) then its made by >> Carl Zeiss >> AG in Oberkochen. >> >> We don't need all that size and weight in front of what's supposed >> to be >> compact camera system, the Leica M. its nice to not have a blocked >> viewfinder and a front heavy camera. >> >> Fast glass is an SLR need. You're always wanting the groundglass to >> be >> brighter. So you can then stop down a little and really get it. >> People think they need speed where all they're looking for is >> "brightness" >> and the leeway to know they've got their focus. >> >> An M needs a complete F4 option from wide to tele. >> Like it did in the day. The 50s and 60's. >> >> So they've come out with this classic f4 and had Cosina do it. >> I love the Zeiss chrome front rim design like on a Contarex. >> >> Cosina always willing to come out with a more humane option for the >> monsters >> the other camera companies make. But Kaufmann's catching on. >> I do notice the new 18 and slow 24. >> >> I don't think we need a whole lens line of f1.4's. >> We need f4's not f1.4's. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Mark William Rabiner >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > Cheers > Geoff > Alles was eine gute Kamera braucht / Everything a good camera needs: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information