[Leica] Was: Screw the Nocti, Now: 28mm And BeThere

[Mark Rabiner]

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.
>>>>> 
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