Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/04/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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/