[Leica] Cameraquest claim re. Voigtlander 50mm f/3.5 Heliar IV M mount
Mark Rabiner
mark at rabinergroup.com
Sat Feb 18 21:19:39 PST 2017
It interesting that people involved with a premium product in this case Leica gear here do not seem to have a clue or a care what a premium product is all about. You’d think it’s about jacking up the price because everyone is so fond of the typeface in the logo.
It’s about using higher quality materials and better design and materials. Not that complicated but it just seems to go over everyone’s heads. Big news Leica gear is worth it. That’s not fake news. It’s not some shell game.
When a product comes out for a small fraction of the cost it’s a very nice thing it’s just not in competition Leica or other stuff of comparable cost. We don’t have to put out its better or just as good or even close. It’s just not. Its wishful thinking for people with limited resources or just as likely of limited interest. We afford what we want to afford. If it’s not worth it to us, we say we can’t afford it. “This cheap thing is just as good it says it right here” That’s fake news.
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Mark William Rabiner
Photographer
On 2/16/17, 10:45 PM, "LUG on behalf of Paul Roark" <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of roark.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
The quote about the Heliar being the best ever tested, etc. may come from
an old Modern Photo test. Photozone tested one on a NEX and did a
comparable test of the 50 f/2 Zeiss ZM (which I have). The ZM is better --
not surprisingly.
I must say, however, if there was on old classic, perhaps collapsible lens
that one could put on a digital M that really was superb, it would make a
rather unique combination and conversation piece.
Paul
www.PaulRoark.com
On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 2:44 AM, Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com>
wrote:
> I have one of the originals which came on a green body I failed to resist.
> It is indeed super sharp but is only f3.5, so much easier to make sharp
> from an optical design pov.
> I know nowadays with modern computer analysis tools fast lenses which are
> amazingly sharp are available, but I am old enough to have come from the
> time when only the slower lenses were sharpest, and the fast ones were
> known to have compromised speed for sharpness!
> I have had an apo Summicron on my camera and shot a few frames in dark
> conditions where camera shake made much more difference to sharpness than
> lens quality.
> Frankly with modern digital cameras having splendid light sensitivity this
> would be a superb choice if DoF effect isn’t the deciding factor.
> I’m going to get mine out again and give it another go - I have far too
> many 50s to use them all.
> cheers,
> Frank D.
>
>
> > On 15 Feb 2017, at 20:08, Paul Roark <roark.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone ever tested this claim by Cameraquest
> > <https://www.cameraquest.com/> ?
> >
> > "The new Voigtlander 50mm f/3.5 Heliar IV Leica M Mount is
> extraordinarily
> > sharp, comparable to Leica's 50mm f/2 APO Summicron-M!"
> >
> > It came around in an email circulation.
> >
> > It seems a bit over the top.
> >
> > Paul
> > www.PaulRoark.com
> >
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