Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/07/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I am regarding it as week 28..... John On 10/07/2012, at 3:55 PM, "Jeffery Smith" <jsmith342 at gmail.com> wrote: > I shall accept the [gulp] challenge. Without my M8, it will have to be a > 25/1.4 Summilux on an Olympus E30. > > Okay, what the hell week is this?! > > Sent from my iPad > > Jeffery L. Smith > New Orleans, Louisiana > USA > > On Jul 9, 2012, at 22:48, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote: > >> Remarkably little difference between them at f5.6, especially given the >> difference in price/size/weight! >> >> Still time to start a PAW, I only started this year, and it is useful to >> show some images that do not stand up on their own and that other peoples >> taste can be different to your own ;-) I am still a sparse shooter, too >> many years with sheet and 120 film I think, so do not have to choose from >> 720 in a week ;-) >> >> john >> ________________________________________ >> >> >> And the 15 Zeiss was the tipping $ point that was not made by Cosina, >> putting it out of my reach. I do have the 15 VC but virtually never use >> it. >> >> I regret not doing a PAW, and admire those doing a PAW or PESO. The >> pressure of doing a PAW made me think photographic thoughts every day. >> And, pathologically, digital seem to steal some of the magic. Instead of >> scanning 36 frames, I was editing 720 frames. >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> Jeffery L. Smith >> New Orleans, Louisiana >> USA >> >> On Jul 9, 2012, at 22:24, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote: >> >>> I think the 15mm is the only asph in the ZM range. I suspect that the >>> Zeiss SLR range will start to get asph lenses as CA is a big issue on >>> the D800(E) with them. >>> >>> john >>> ________________________________________ >>> >>> >>> I'm willing to throw Zeiss into that as well. I'm not sure that Zeiss >>> uses as much asph as Leica, or if they just don't mention it in the lens >>> name. >>> >>> It is probably a flaw in my standards that I don't care so much about >>> corner sharpness. If the corner is that important, I should have put it >>> in the middle instead of the corner. >>> >>> Other than my Russian lenses, virtually everything I own is good enough >>> for me (= better than me). I really don't like anything about zoom >>> lenses and rarely use them on my dSLR cameras. >>> >>> Sent from my iPad >>> >>> Jeffery L. Smith >>> New Orleans, Louisiana >>> USA >>> >>> On Jul 9, 2012, at 21:49, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote: >>> >>>> Ah, I was talking Leica asph ;-) >>>> >>>> john >>>> ________________________________________ >>>> >>>> >>>> The Voigtlander 50/1.5 Nokton was perhaps the first really sharp, >>>> afforable, asph lens that people hated for its bokeh. The trend in >>>> thinking seemed to be that reducing aberrations with asph elements >>>> benefitted everything except bokeh. >>>> >>>> I think every lens needs to be assessed on its own merit. I don't have >>>> any bad Leica lenses, though the old 50/3.5 Elmar performs like a >>>> Russian copy. Wait, maybe it is.... >>>> >>>> The 50/2.5 Hexanon is better. >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPad >>>> >>>> Jeffery L. Smith >>>> New Orleans, Louisiana >>>> USA >>>> >>>> On Jul 9, 2012, at 20:56, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I think that is a widely held misconception.... >>>>> >>>>> john >>>>> ________________________________________ >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> By the way, George, you had some incredibly creamy-bokeh shots posted >>>>> the other day, and one of them was with an aspherical Leica lens(!). >>>>> It blew away my bias that aspherical = bad bokeh. >>>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> Mail was checked for spam by the Freeware Edition of CleanMail. >> The Freeware Edition is free for personal and non-commercial use. >> You can remove this notice by purchasing a full license! >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Mail was checked for spam by the Freeware Edition of CleanMail. > The Freeware Edition is free for personal and non-commercial use. > You can remove this notice by purchasing a full license!