Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:44 AM 5/30/99 +1000, you wrote: >Joe, > I own a Cannon 50mm 1.2 lens and I would on ly use it in an emergency. It is >quite fuzzy and lousy at out the out of focus area. I Bought a whole Cannon 7 >outfit from a Pawn shop., for about 35 AUS. That's about $25 US at the moment. >The outfit had 2 >Cannon 7 cameras, a 50mm 1.2, a 50mm 1.8, a 35mm f2 and 2 100mm f3.5 black >lenses with it. >The best lens from the above is the 35mm F2. This is superb. The rest are OK, >but the 1.2 is crap. It fits on to all screw mount Leicas direct, But obscures >the view finder somewhat. Use an adapter for the M cameras. But if you use a >lens hood, you'll obscure about a 1/4 of the view finder field. If you have not >bought it yet, don't buy it. >Regards Horst Schmidt Thanks for the responses I got on this lens. Ok, I'm convinced. It was the bit about the out-of-focus bits being lousy that really convinced me! Using a lens this fast wide open I find that the out of focus bits are usually most of the picture. Joe Berenbaum