Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You mean sch?ner? Mark William Rabiner Photography > From: Robert Meier <robertmeier at usjet.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:30:15 -0500 (CDT) > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] 35mm Summicron R lens - good , bad, so so? > > Das is ein sehr sh?ner K?lner Dom! > > > On Jun 21, 2011, at 11:19 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >> I really think on most camera lists with guys trading back and forth >> opinions on a lens they've bought and sold back and forth there'd >> be showing >> uploads of examples they'd shot with that lens early on or at least >> some >> time during the thread. It would not be "oh I looked at mine the >> other day >> and it looked real nice". Because here its really sounding like >> which lens >> is more fun to fondle. The "Mandler" or the non Mandler. >> It sounding like the Mandler makes a better handler. >> >> Me whenever I like a lens its always because some where along the >> line I >> seemed to have taken a picture with it. Then I blow some of I it up >> in my >> darkroom. Then hang it on the wall or put it in a portfolio and >> show it to >> people. That's when I start liking the lens, seeing what results >> it makes >> for me. Not because it feels real good in my hand one day ... Here >> its now >> sounding like all theoretical rhetoric. I really think those days >> of just >> BS'ing on photo chat lists are over. >> >> >> Mark William Rabiner >> By the way here's a shot I did with my 21mm M Elmarit 2.8. >> The darkroom 16x20s I'd made with it made my former wide champ my >> Nikkor 24 >> 2.8 look very average and unremarkable. Non scintillating. >> But like the prairie home companion guy says we're all very much >> slightly >> above average and that's just find and dandy. (to paraphrase) >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ >> 060929_lhsa_wetz_158.jpg.html >> Its the K?lner Dom (Dome of Cologne) >> 21mm Leica Elmarit Asph Ilford XP2 film >> 060 yellow green filter >> >> >>> From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:18:59 -0500 >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] 35mm Summicron R lens - good , bad, so so? >>> >>> Vic, >>> >>> I have the 28 Elmarit-R, which is fairly compact. Would work >>> great on the >>> R9, but is a little hard to focus on my Oly DSLRs. >>> >>> Jim Nichols >>> Tullahoma, TN USA >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Vick Ko" <vick.ko at sympatico.ca> >>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 8:58 AM >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] 35mm Summicron R lens - good , bad, so so? >>> >>> >>>> Thanks Marty. >>>> >>>> I sold my 35/1.4 R, partially due to it being too heavy. >>>> >>>> I'm thinking of getting a 35/2 R. Or maybe only reserving my >>>> 35mm focal >>>> length shooting to M camera. >>>> >>>> But I would like a small R lens to use on my R9. I only have >>>> superwides >>>> and tele's for it. >>>> >>>> regards >>>> >>>> >>>> Vick >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 6/21/2011 8:01 AM, Marty Deveney wrote: >>>>> I just played with some 35mm R lenses recently. The Mandler >>>>> version >>>>> of the lens is really great. It's very flare resistant with light >>>>> sources in the frame, has excellent colour reproduction and few >>>>> serious flaws. It occasionally flares when there are diffuse, >>>>> bright >>>>> sources of light outside the frame, much like the 50/2 Summicron-M >>>>> six-element versions. With an SLR you can usually see the flare >>>>> before you shoot. The Summilux-R is better until about f2.8-4, >>>>> where >>>>> they become equal, and has better close up and near-far performance >>>>> because of its floating element. But the Summilux has more optical >>>>> vignetting, and has a 67mm filter thread, and is much heavier, >>>>> instead >>>>> of 55 for the Summicron. >>>>> >>>>> Marty >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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