Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If you are shooting at f5.6 Leica lenses are a bit of a waste of money. My Leica 50mm f1.4 is noticeable better that my Nikon 50mm f1.4 -at- f1.4, but at f5.6 i see very little difference. The price differential is almost 10:1. That is my experience in general, sure all lenses get better stopped down, very particularly the cheap ones. What makes Leica worth the money (if you have it) is it loses so little quality as you open up, compared to others. IME. Frank On 27 Mar, 2010, at 03:03, Mark Rabiner wrote: > succulent: > > Despite what ever mind sets come about when you stop down a couple you get > better performance from a lens. Wide open you have some stuff better not > there. At 5.6 these problems goes away. > I was never a wide open shooter. When I got a Noctilux though I wasn't > walking around shooting it at 5.6. Though it was more an f 2000th of a > second and be there kind of thing not an f1 kind of thing. I got f1 when > it > was not too bright out. > > But most my shots in my whole life and most people I knew you stopped down > a > couple at least to get the best from your lens cutting out the bad stuff > and > to also get the thing in focus. Wide open you could miss your focus. And > also wide open you don't get anything else in focus. > > The wonderfulness of pre ASPH lenses I don't buy into. > I shoot with a 40 Summacron C its my favorite lens I wish it was made later > with some ASPH elements in there it would be an even better lens. > And when shot at 5.6 would be no less succulent > As asphs just make it a better lens. > With the more modern ASPH Leica glass is no BS "brittleness" attributed to > them by people who liked their existing glass and didn't want to trade up. > I'd have not traded up either unless I had a huge windfall from a dead > uncle. Though more and more I'd liked cutting edge results wide open not > just getting what I'm getting. > > One more from 5.8 and you get 8 and a lens which is not workable at f8 is > hard to find. > > The pre apshs though are a couple of generations removed from what's going > on in cutting edge Leica optical design. > > And cutting edge Leica optical design is what my money is wanted to go to. > And there is nothing not succulent about its results at 5.6 or 8. > Or f4 even. > > > [Rabs] > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information