Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tom Bryant wrote: > > Hl Luggers, > snip > 5: Which is the better of the two aforementioned lenses? And why? snip > The Summilux. Snip Charton Heston you aint buddy. This particular commandment aint written in stone yet. The Sumicron for Leica is the Kodachrome for Kodak: its main... (I forgot the word) deal. Snip > 10: Which Leica body design is considered the best? (No fighting now!) > The late model M3. DD or SD?. The people who work in the factory think DD. But their particular expertise is not in the shooting of the cameras is it? As far a the using of the cameras go the Leica M is widely considered to be very much a wide angle camera; problematical with the needed eyes on the M3. I'm not saying its not a great camera. Snip > 29: Who was the designer/inventor of the Noctilux? > It's a variant of the double Gauss design, so I'll say Carl F. Gauss. The guy who gave us the Gaussian Blur Filter in Photoshop undoubtably. Snip Mark :-) Rabiner