[Leica] ultra wide

["Gary Klein" <gklein@excel.net>]

Dear Luggers,

I am in the process of doing a job that will pay for my ultra wide lust.  I
would like to get a 14 or 15mm non fisheye.  Now my choices in the under
$1,000 dept are:

- -getting the voightlander (sp?), with the finder and buying a screw to m
adapter. (to hang on my M42)
- -getting a sigma 14mm f2.8 asph for my Nikon or Canon systems. The faster
one they just introduced.

My goal is to get the best performing lens that shows fairly low levels of
distortion and high levels of sharpness.

I can't quite afford hologons,  or super elmars, so I need to seek out the
pick of the litter.

Do any of you  have seen negs from both of these lenses?  Do you know of any
published  test reports on these two?

I am not real concerned with lens speed.  Image quality is more important
that speed, as if needed the 800 speed films these days is really superb.

Just to keep the lug clear, if you want to respond privately, that would be
fine.

gck