Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]One of the differences in the Leica lens that the Mag. did not give over the Nikkor is that in 40 years someone will still be using the Leica lens. I can not say that about the Nikkor. I can just imagin that someone will still be bragging about still being able to take pictures with high quality using a 40 year old Leica lens. Fred Jackson jackson105@juno.com On Fri, 18 Sep 1998 07:55:31 -0500 Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net> writes: >At 10:14 AM 9/18/98 +0200, you wrote: > >>If they did not test the newer 180/2.8 APO than it is more likely >Leica's >>fault for not supplying it to them and giving an old 180/3.4 instead. >It >>is more a question of, again (did you notice the pattern...), bad >>marketing on their behalf. > >Could be, but I know what the new Nikkor can do, and what the Apo >Telyt >(3.4) can do, and they are not comparable. The Apo Telyt is a freak of >nature from the 70s. But be that as it may, another showing of their >lack >of knowledge is that 3.4 is not much slower in any case, and if they >tested >the T-stop on the Apo Telyt, they'd find the light transmission is so >efficient that it makes it very close to the equivalent of a 2.8 lens. >So >no significant speed difference. This is a well established fact about >this >lens since the 70s. > >On the other hand, Leica may have not had a model available when this >test >was done. Did they give a date? This is a very news lens (180 Apo >2.8), so >that might be a reason. > >In the end, I really don't put much credence in magazine lens tests, >because they aren't lens manufacturers, they don't know the intent of >the >manufacturer (with Erwin P. being a notable exception in this area) >and so >how can they possibly test a lens for the target points of any given >lens? >So maybe I shouldn't get my shorts in a knot about them, eh? >-- > >Eric Welch >St. Joseph, MO >http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch > >Suicidal twin kills sister by mistake! > _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]