Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ed, "Rarely" is not the same as "never". There are situations where I am very happy to have the superwide. Those situations are not so frequent and that is why I did not even consider shelling out the enormous price for the converted Contax lens. I guess many others felt the same way, which is why the arrival of the low-cost, high-quality alternative in the form of the Heliar has generated such excitement. Notice that nobody is raving about the 25mm Skopar--that is much less interesting since this focal length is brilliantly covered by Leica itself with the 24mm Elmarit. Nathan Edward Meyers wrote: > Just figure that for most photographic work the usefulness of > 18-16 and 15mm focal length lenses on a 35mm camera is equal > to one over the focal length squared. In more understandable > terms...Why go so wide when you'll rarely use it? Ed - -- Nathan Wajsman Overijse, Belgium General photo site: http://members.tripod.com/belgiangator/ Belgium photo site: http://members.xoom.com/wajsman/ Motorcycle site: http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Downs/1704/