Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:29 PM 30/06/1999 -0700, you wrote: > >Why not just get the Voightlander Skopa instead..for abt $450 u > get a pretty > >good finder ....... and a lens :) > >(The finders for the Skopa & Heliar is at abt 1 stop brighter > than the Leitz > >finders- ) > > > >Ting > Dr. Blacktape (Yes, the name has been legally changed)feels compelled to comment on all the excitement about the cheap new 15 and 25 mm screwmount lenses: Why not buy a 25 and finder instead of a Leica 24 and finder at at least three times the price? Several reasons, but the most obvious is that while the inexpensive 25 may be a reasonably good lens, it is not rangefinder coupled. With a 15, which is largely a "play" lens anyway, where the depth of field is enormous, the lack of coupled rangefinder isn't much of an issue. But a 24 is often a critically important "work" lens, rather than a "play" lens, or a lens that is going to be needed for work far too few times to justify a major investment, so it is really impossible to equate the Heliar and the 24 M ASPH.