[Leica] 50 APO Summicron on sale.... Overstock.com

[John McMaster]

AFAIK Jay B and I are the only two on this list with that lens, I never
leave home with a camera without it. It may be the only lens or with a
combination of 28/35/75 but it is always there. I may take a Noctilux, but
it is still with me. It is that impressive a lens IMO....

john

-----Original Message-----

Agreed, entirely. And it’s why the expensive ‘cron won’t make a difference
for most people.

And of course a fixed FL lens won’t effectively compete with a zoom until
the sensor it images on has the pixel count that allows a 50%, 30%, 20% crop
that gives the same FOV as a 50, 75, 120 mm zoom with nice detail.

—howard

> On Dec 9, 2015, at 4:50 PM, Philippe <photo.philippe.amard at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 
> Very surprising, and not my experience as a traveller/shooter I was 
> out shooting last night with a 35mm (50mm FF eq.) and missed my now sold
24-120 on a D700.
> 
> Resolution i.e. l/mm is one (tiny) part of a photo, angle, depth of field
and perspective matter to, me much more.
> 
> Amities
> Philippe
> 
> Le 9 déc. 2015 à 19:50, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> a écrit :
> 
>> And this brings up the possibilities for dispensing with zooms and 
>> interchangeable lenses altogether for general purposes. If a camera 
>> with a fixed WA lens had a FF 200-MPx sensor and a digital zoom 
>> function, and an EVF, it would have the same capabilities as a big FF 
>> DSLR with a 24-120 zoom—even with a linear 1/5 crop, equivalent to a 
>> 5x zoom,
>