Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/04/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A good point, Mark. On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > Its not the best thinking became you are replacing a 35 with a 28 thinking > they will be about the same while they are quite different. (one of my > favorite Rockwell quirks)/ A 35 is a slightly wide angle lens and a 28 is a > decidedly wide angle lens. I've always assigned them completely different > usages. > > > On 4/6/15 10:13 AM, "Robert D. Baron" <robertbaron1 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > I bought the 28mm Summicron-M ASPH I think at about the time it was > > released, IIRC at the Leica Seminar on Cape Cod in 2001. I never got > > comfortable with the focal length and sold it some years later. > > > > Now I'm thinking about buying a 28mm Elmarit-M 2.8 to use on my M240, > > mainly when I'm traveling and don't want to carry my current 35mm > Summilux. > > > > Is this good thinking? > > > > --Bob > > > > > > ===On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 2:00 AM, Jay Burleson <leica at > > jayburleson.com> > > wrote: > > > >> Erwin Puts: > >> "The Summicron-M 2/28 mm ASPH. is one of the crown jewels in the Leica > >> scuderia of lenses. It is a superb lens and after twelve years in > >> production still not surpassed." > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On 4/5/2015 9:39 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >> > >>> Maybe on this thing we should find the specs. The MTF graphs. And or > some > >>> reviews by people who sound like they may know what they're talking > >>> about. > >>> Instead of relying on capricious or even malicious chat group gossip. > >>> I can speak for the finish of the lens a chrome version which looked > top > >>> Leica quality to me. If that accounts for much. > >>> > >>> > >>> On 4/6/15 12:24 AM, "Gene duprey" <grduprey at mchsi.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> Interesting. i remember several years ago everyone was praising the > 28 > >>>> Chron. > >>>> I wonder what has changed? > >>>> > >>>> 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. > >>>>> > >>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>> 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 > > > > > -- > 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 >