Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/16

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Subject: Re: [Leica] equipment update - FYI
From: Five Senses Productions <fls@5senses.com>
Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 17:11:13 -0700

Thanks!  I can't wait to get out and test my 24 this weekend!

At 10:17 PM 5/16/98 +0200, Sander van Hulsenbeek wrote:
>Francesco,
>
>I tested the 24 mm asph last weekend on my M6HM
>
>I am very satisfied with the quality of my Velvia slides. Very sharp to the
>very corners
>and very nice 'bokeh'. I found a little vignetting at full aperture, that
>does not bother me, taking in account that I deliberately underexposed.
>Actually, in such situatiuons my R19 mm/2.8(new model) also showed a little
>vignetting, and that should be the best wide-angle available.
>
>I see no difference in color with my 50/2.
>
>Now the finder. The Leica finder, on loan, is dreadful. It shows you what
>you take but what you see geves no pleasure. I have therfor tried the finder
>that comes with the Ricoh 28mm GR
>lens for the M (Yes!) I think that finder, very similar to the Contax
>finders, shows, in total, a fine 24 mm fied, when you forget the 28mm lines.
>My dealer is trying to get me one. It is less expensive ( my dealer always
>says: Leica is not expensive, but does cost a lot of money) and nicely
>crafted out of metal. Not out of uninpiring plastic.
>
>Sander van Hulsenbeek
>
>
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>Sander van Hulsenbeek
>at work: sander.vanhulsenbeek@solvay.com
>at home: vanhulsenbeek@wxs.nl
>and also: http://home.wxs.nl/~sanderva/home.html
> 


Francesco Sanfilippo,
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