Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/23

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Subject: RE: [Leica] 21mm Elmarit-M vs 50mm Noctilux
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 12:38:38 -0000

Now THAT's the really practical approach!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Nathan
> Wajsman
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 3:43 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] 21mm Elmarit-M vs 50mm Noctilux
> 
> 
> Assuming that both lenses are new, I would take the 
> Noctilux--it is about
> 20-25% more expensive than the Elmarit. If I liked the 
> Noctilux, I would keep
> it; otherwise I would sell it, buy the Elmarit and keep the change.
> 
> Nathan
> 
> Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
> 
> > >If someone were to give you a free lens and the choice was 
> between the
> > >21mm Elmarit-M or the 50mm Noctilux, which would you 
> choose and why?
> >
> > For me, f/2 is fast enough. I'd grab for the 21mm lens. 
> Why? Because I
> > regularly take pictures in available darkness scenarios 
> with as slow as
> > an f/2.8 lens with no problems, and I like working with 
> wide angle lenses.
> >
> > Godfrey
> 
> --
> Nathan Wajsman
> Overijse, Belgium
> General photo page: http://members.tripod.com/belgiangator
> Belgium photo page: http://members.xoom.com/wajsman
> 
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