Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/17

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Subject: Re: [Leica] non-leica lens rolecall
From: Thomas Kachadurian <kach@freeway.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 21:06:46 -0500

Bill:

I use--and love--a 28mm Rokkor for the CLE. It makes a lovely detailed
image with a warm, but neutral color balance. I can't speak to it's quality
at 2.8, since I use it mostly at 5.6 and 8. Nicest of all, it's tiny and I
can use it with my swing out polarizer.

Tom

At 11:57 PM 3/16/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Brother & Sister luggers,
>I'm interested in hearing about the non-Leica lenses some of us use with
>our favorite cameras. What is it, how well does it shoot, any surprises?
>In my case it's a Canon Serenar 85mm f1.9 used on an M-4p  I bought it
>about 5 years ago for $125 plus another $25 for the screw mount to bayonet
>adapter. Eddie Tillis of Woodmere Camera turned me on to this lens.  I'm
>very pleased with the images I get with this chrome beast.  It's sharp,
>nice contrast...a very pleasant image for portraits.  
>I used it a couple of days ago to photograph an arraignment of a rape
>suspect.  Miserable overhead flourescent lighting, 1/60 second at f2.8 but
>the negs scanned beautifully.  Of course the quiet Leica shutter helps when
>making photographs in the courtroom.
>Bill Bresler
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