Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/08/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:43 AM 8/13/96 PDT, you wrote: > >a pretty good price (<$3,500) for this exotic lens. Used ones seem to sell >for several times this sum. > >My question is, how good is this rather old design, recognizing that nothing >else that wide is available? There are lenses wider available, that are pretty good. Canon has a 14mm 2.8 for less money, and it's rectilinear. By the way, this is a new design. The old Zeiss Hologon that Leica sold in the mid 70s was a 15mm f/8 lens. The new one is 16mm, and a new though very similar design. At that focal length, that one millimeter is a significant difference. The old one was a phenomenal lens for its time, and I suspect the new one will be. One reason is they are symmetrical, or close, and because of the f/8 aperture, they are able to keep performance high. ================== Eric Welch Grants Pass Daily Courier NPPA Region 11 JIB Chair