Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 02:01 AM 30-08-97 EDT, Ted wrote: [snip] >But I would "brag about it":), [the non asph 35/1.4] as I have used that lens in that fashion many >many times and it produces the most marvelous looking negatives and consequently >the most interesting "glowing" 16X20 prints one would want. > >Possibly I misread your comment, but for me the 35mm 1.4 Summilux non aspherical >is a great lens. I will be using the Aspherical shortly and it better "show me" >that I made a wise purchase or it's gone. :) I have both the non asph and the 1st version aspherical. If you REALLY like that gross spherically aberational look of the non asph 35 at 1.4, then who am I to argue, but for me it rarely adds to a picture. I guess we have different tastes. On the other hand, for ordinary shooting I love that old lens. I still have it, in spite of the superiority of the newer aspherical. > >Always open for a challenge, but we have to set the rules first. We have a beer, >discuss the pros and cons, examine original negs, a beer, examine colour >transparencies, another beer and then get down to looking at serious "printed >reproductions!" :) > >By then the Leica look will kick in and you'll loose! :) That's my plan, then >there's Gods' plan! And my plan doesn't count! :) So good buddy what's yours? >:) I suspect that the beer will kick in first, and then for sure I will lose! ;-) >You know it's too bad we all live around the world and the country, so that when >an interesting point like this comes up that we can't get >together and truly be able to do real time comparisons. Sans beer first of >course! But after that it's another thing, as the looser buys or if it's a tie, >we alternate rounds! :) You on? :) Next time I am in Vancouver! With the amount of money I have invested in my M Leica, and the fact that I truly prefer using it to all of my other cameras, I would be more than happy to be proven wrong on this. It is just that every now and then I will pull out my Minolta 9xi with its 50/1.4 lens for which I paid $179 NEW, take some pictures with it, and then find myself asking, "these were taken with THIS camera?" Can you recommend a book of Leica and non Leica pictures that I may find in a local Chapters where the Leica pictures stand out from the others?