[Leica] Old lenses on latest digital bodies

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

I think the D800E improves all lenses - when you down sample a lot of the
perceived ills disappear - and distortion can now be cured by a click of a
post processing button! If soft corners bother you, they can again be fixed
with a light crop - just leave some space around when you frame the image.
After all, you have 36MP to play around with!

I like the 24-85 because it is light, and sharp. I actually bought the
24-120 f4 on an impulse, and sold it soon after because I preferred the
fully plastic, 10 year old 24-85 for my regular use. If you are a pixel
peeper, or in the business of making really big prints, then of course
better lenses are there at $$$$ cost, but looking at it from a practical
point of view, a lot of these older lenses perform really well - three 10+
year old lenses are on my normal rota - this one, 180mm f2.8, 85mm f1.8. Up
to A2 sized prints, viewed from normal distances, you will be hard pressed
to tell the difference between lenses on the D800E.
Cheers
Jayanand


On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:40 AM, HENG HOE CHING <davidhhching at me.com> 
wrote:

> Dear Jaya,
>
> Super resolutions on your latest efforts with the D800E and the AFS 24-85.
> Is it the camera or the lens? So all those talk about the D800E out
> resolving the lesser lenses is not quite true? LUGger Len reports that his
> old Nikon lenses have now a new lease of life with his OM-D EM-5 too.
>
> And I am currently testing both these bodies out too. Great to see such
> results from you. Can't wait long enough for the M.
>
> Best,
>
> David Ching
>
>