Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/07
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John - Don't get me wrong either...the pre-ASPH is a hell of a lens - and
the proof is in the fact that it captured many of the great images of the
Vietnam era...It's still a great lens, for size and glow if nothing
else...The two advantages of the ASPH are sharpness, which is not to be
believed, and virtual freedom from flare....I too, if I could, would own
both versions...but, alas, I can't afford too...I can barely afford
one...;-)
- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of John
Brownlow
Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2000 11:37 PM
To: LUG
Subject: Re: [Leica] 35/1.4 Summilux at f1.4
on 6/2/00 3:06 pm, B. D. Colen at bdcolen@earthlink.net wrote:
> John - Don't dismiss the ASPH out of hand until you've shot with it. I had
> the pre-ASPH, traded up, and have never looked back. The ASPH is one
amazing
> lens.
Yeah, don't get me wrong... if I could have 'em *both*!! My point is just
that the particular image quality of the non-ASPH lens is not available
elsewhere. Just as I would not sell my Canon 28/2.8 even though I'm buying
an Elmarit.
Sometimes the glow-ey quality of the 35/1.4 is a pain in the arse, as it
makes everything kind of romantic. Also, it is a real restriction not being
able to shoot into the light wide open... for example in a restaurant with a
subject backlit against a window where there is *no* frontal light... you
end up shooting at 1/30 @ f/2 but the incoming window light just blasts all
that to hell and there's no way of flagging it off.
But still -- I don't take it off the camera very often.
- --
John Brownlow
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