Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/04/05

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Subject: [Leica] Screw the Nocti...
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2015 21:31:25 -0700
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> On Apr 5, 2015, at 9:24 PM, grduprey at mchsi.com wrote:
> 
> Interesting.  i remember several years ago everyone was praising the 28 
> Chron.  I wonder what has changed?


nothing,

it?s wonderful?


s

> 
> Gene
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Man" <richard at richardmanphoto.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Sunday, April 5, 2015 3:06:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Screw the Nocti...
> 
> If I do street documentary, I would get a 28mm (again) for sure. I did most
> of my "Occupy" series with the 35 or 50mm, and I definitely would have
> loved a 28mm.
> 
> Fortunately, the 28mm Cron is the unloved Leica-child, so one can get it
> for around $2500 now. A bargain compares to the Nocti :-)
> 
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 12:28 PM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Mark, I think you should go back a reread your books ;-)
>> 
>> john
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mark Rabiner
>> Sent: Monday, 6 April 2015 6:08 a.m.
>> To: Leica Users Group
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Screw the Nocti...
>> 
>> Most of us and most photographers I've ever met unless they were just
>> starting out had both a 28 and a 24. Nobody ever didn't have either. That
>> would be crazy. Its always been a basic focal length. Its one of the frame
>> lines in M's since the M2 in 1957.
>> 
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> 
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