Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim, I'm sure your opinion more properly represents the appropriate response from this LUG of ours. I think our interest with the Cosina/Voigtlander, Yasuhara, Ricoh and (to come, we expect) Konica gear is fascination with new toys, and these toys are more affordable. There is also, for me perhaps, the perversity of it all! Following on from the line of 'Why have a run of the mill SLR when you could own a weird rangefinder camera?' comes the question, 'Why have the ordinary(!!) lenses for this rangefinder camera when you could have something more obscure?' In a sense, a search for rarity status, a pursuit of eclecticism! In 10 years time will we still be wanting the Voigtlander lenses? I doubt it. We shall hopefully, by then, have all the money we want to buy the Leica lenses we always promised ourselves but didn't think we could afford back then. New toys and fascination with, seeming, exotica... Jem =================== Jim Brick wrote: > Well gang, I still don't get it and I'm not sure I ever will. Actually, I > don't want to. Which is OK because everyone has to have their own set of > likes, dislikes, wants, toys, etc... > > If I had both an Cosina 75/2.4 and a Summilux 75/1.4, which would I use? > > It will be a cold day in hell before I would lay an image on film through > any 75mm lens other than the 75/1.4 Summilux. This lens is simply the > epitome of Leica. Unique images that speak to you. Sit and look at them (as > I am doing right now,) and the music starts playing. > > Am I really stupid? Or are you all keeping secrets from me? > > Jim > > At 01:40 AM 5/24/99 +0200, you wrote: > >Tom, > >They also told me that they would be very happy if the rumors > >about 75 or 90 lenses should be true. > > > >Mikiro > > > >----- > > > >At 8:27 AM +0200 23/5/99, TTAbrahams@aol.com wrote: > >snip > >> if the Cosina > >>can keep the optical quality they have shown with the 15/4,5 and the 25/4, I > >>am getting in the line for the 50/1,5 and the 75/2,4. > >>Tom A > >