Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/09/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sep 11, 2013, at 4:40 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > My memory is it was a 75mm lens they started with which they promised would > be the last Leica lens they'd make they had no intention of competing with > Leica. Then they came out with a body. Then a wide. Though I'm really a > capitalist and am all for competition and feel positive about most of the > output of the Cosina company and its alternate lower price point and have > and use some of their stuff, glass and bodies In both my Leica M, LTM and > also my Nikon DSLR systems. Also some of the Cosina stuff shows some > imagination that Leica didn't have. Compact slower optics as Leica was > coming out with metal munching high speed monsters with a price tag which > reads like a house down payment. > Though in many cases glass wise I'd rather go with an older Leica from a > previous decade as resolution and contrast is not such a big thing for me > all the time with digital. > > I like the idea more of glass being the best it can be in 1960 more than > glass made in 2013 dumbed down to fit the money pocketbooks of the > consuming > masses. > And I like Nickel and brass more than I like aluminum and plastic. > > > On 9/11/13 5:52 PM, "Jefffery Smith" <jsmith342 at gmail.com> wrote: > >> My recollection is that Cosina ultrawides piqued interest in people who >> couldn't justify paying for a Leica ultrawide. I'm not sure I can justify >> paying for a Cosina ultrawide; I just don't use them any more. I do >> remember >> when digital was sort of a verboten subject on the LUG. These days, >> digital is >> the norm on the LUG. >> >> I'm glad that this group is still hanging in there, even if they don't >> always >> use Leica. I quit the Pentax forum because (1) it often didn't involve >> Pentax, >> and (2) it often didn't even involve photography. That's a bad >> combination. totally agree, I'll take the old Summilux 75mm 1.4 over all the newer stuff, (if I can focus it) Steve >> >> Jeffery >> >> > -- > Mark William Rabiner > Photographer > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information